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	‚t Not many slaves had a chance to ~‘it property oi~ deir .owI1 for a 1on~ time ‘cause dey didn‘t have no money to buy it wid. Dem few what had land. oC deir own wouldn‘t have had it it deir white folks hadn‘t give it to ‘em or help ‘era to ~it it. My uncle, Carter Brown, had a plenty ‘cause his white folks. holped him to lt a home and ‘bout evvything else he wanted. Dem i‘~~orton Negroes ~‘ot ahead faster dan niost any of de others ‘round here but dey couldn‘t have done it ir deir white loiks hadn‘t holped ‘em so much.

	It ~3oon as I €~ot bi~ enough, I started cookin‘ i~or well.-

o~~t white ~olics. Fact is, I ain‘t never cooked ror no white ±olks dat didn‘t have jus‘ plenty oI~ nioney. some oi~ de white

£olks whathas done et my cookin‘ is de Mitchells, Upsons, Ruckers, Jrid~es, and Chiet Sea~raves‘ ~ambly. I was cookin‘ lor Chier .Juesse‘s mammy when hs was jus‘ a little old shirttail boy. thoney, I allus did lak to be workin‘ and I have done my share o~ it, but since I got so old I ain‘t able to do much no more. L~y vhite roiks is nii~hty ~o3d to me thoU~.

	I, 1Ç~w ~1oney, you may think it‘s kind o1 runny but I ain‘t nev3r been much of a hand to run tround wid colored folks. ~:~r maimily and ray white folks dey raised mc ri~‘ht and Jarned me :ood manners and I‘~n powerful proud of my raisin‘. I feels lak now dat white folks understands me bebtér and tprecjates the more.