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~rs, he says they have always been obealent anti. attentive to their parents. ieir mother pa~SeCl away seven years ago. The sous ana daughters o~ Uncle ~ remer~:1Der their grana-~mother and recall stories recountea by her 0±‘ her jt:tvi t~j amonp the inalans

‘Papa htil no gray hairs until after mama aied. His hair turned gray from ~ at her loss.“ saici mrs. Delia Smith, one of his dau~~hters. Uncle Joe~s tile reveals a set of unustu.&Iiy souiiã teet~x from which only one~ tooth is ~ssing.

:e all ~thers an~ gran~tthers, Uncle Joe recoui~ts the cute cIee~s anö. funsayings o:t~ the little children he ~ been associated With: how his own. Iciren with ±‘eather bed~oked cro~ns er~actecI the caDture of tiieir grandmother id often DIa~ed tT1~00~00 Doctor.“ ~ ~ ‚ ~ ~eie joe stresses the value o~ work, not the enforced labor o±~ the slave but ~e cheerful toil o±~ free reoi~Ie. He i~ glad. that his sons and ö~aughters in~ustrious citizens anŒ is ~rou~L they maintain clean homes for their ~ain~ les. ~ He is happy because his ~chi1ciren have never own bondage, an~ he respects the laws o±‘ his country and. ap~reciates the terê~3t that the citizens of i!~van~vi1ie have always showed in the negro race. After Uncle Joe became a young man he met many indians from the tribe

at had held his mother captive. Th~OUg1i them he learned. much about his tuer which his mother had. never told hirn.

Though he was a ~araiier slave and would. have been Joseph GarOEner, he took
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e name of Carter from a step father antI was. known as Joseph Carter.