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(	‚p ~ ~S1av‘ry w~s better in 80fl19 ways ‘nfl things is n~. liVe allus got plen‘y ter eat, which we doan n~. Vie can‘t make but to‘ bits a day workin‘ out now, an‘ ‘at doan buy nothin‘ at


I de sto‘. Co‘se B088 only give us work clo‘es. When I was a ki~ L~ got two os‘berg (1) shirts a year. I never wo‘ no ahoea. I

didn‘ know whut a shoe was made fer, ‘tu I ‘ee t!elYe or thirteen. w. ‘d go rabbit huntin‘ barefoot in de en~.

	“Didn‘ wear no Sunday clo‘es. Dey me, ‘cauee I bed nowhere ter go. You better you off ‘n de place ‚ less ‘ri he give you a pass didn‘ ‘low us to go to church, er to pray er ketched us prayin‘ er aingin‘ he whupped us. you with a book in yo‘ han‘. Didn‘ ‘low it. de~ reason was. JOBS meanness, I reckin. I marster ever went to church in. hie life, but niggers, cept fer doin things he doan ‘low fer nothin ‚ ~ ‘cept farain‘.

“Dere wa‘nt no schools ter cullud people den. We didn‘

know wth~t a achool. was. I never did learn to read.

	“We didn‘ have no mattresses on our beds like we has now. De chullun slop‘ under de big high beds, on sacks. We was put under dem beds ‘bout eight o‘clock, an‘ W.td jes better not say



(1rn) Oanabergs the cheapest grade of cotton cloth
wa‘nt made fer not let Boss ketch to go. My Boss sing. Iffen he He better not ketch I doan know whut doe.n b‘lieve my he wa‘nt mean to his us to. Ii. didn‘ care