S ~ ~	S ‚~ death was soniepln w~iat didntt h*pp.n~ osten 5on our plantatior~,~. but when somebody did die folkseswthi3~d go from miles and miles around to set up ~nd pray aU night to oornt~t de fambly of de daid. Dey never made up de coffins ‘fil atter somebody died. Den dey measured de corpse an~ x~dede eoffin to fit de body. Dein coffins was lined wid blŕek calico and painted wid. lampblack on de outside. ~ Soxrtetďmesdey klviďered S de outside wid black calico lak de 1mm‘ ~ Coffins for w1~ite folkses was jus‘ lak what dey had raade up for deir slaves,and dey was all buried in de same graveyard on deir own plantations~

	“When de war was over dey closed de little 0fl~~ roorn school what our good ~arster had kept in ~Us back yax~4 ~o~r . hi~ s1aves;~but ou. i‘ young~Miss Eileniarnt~rny $iSt;er ~rig11t~ on~ ~ ~~~otWharshe couldteach~.s ohc~ Daddy fixed ~ a room onto our house for her school and she soon had it full of. ehillun. Dey made me study too, and I sho did sate to have 4o go to school to my own sister for she e~e~ored~d take ~evvy chance to lay dat stick on me, t~ut I s‘pects ~e had ~r1g~ tough tirae wid me. When time conie ~‘round to Olebrate se~Izoo1 corrix~ienc ernent ‚ I was one proud little Nigger ~ ca~ise I nevei‘ had been so dressed up in my lire before. I had on aredwaist, S ~ and a gooj~‘I~~~jhpjs; but de gr~ndest thing of all ‘bout dat oŮti~itwasdat Daddy 1etrne~fiI~ ~8wa*~ch• ~Evvy-~ body ooit~e for dat oel~ration. Dere was over 300 folks at dat
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