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	WA heap o‘ Niggers voted for a little black man what had office. He was named Lynch. He up in Washington. Us had a sheriff named Winston. Nigger an‘ pow‘ful mean when he got riled. Sheriff an‘, if lay mem‘ry amt failed me, so was Lynch.

	“My granny toi‘ me ‘bout a slave uprisin‘ what took place a little boy. None o‘ de marster‘s Ni~ggers ‘ud have nothin‘

it.	A Nigg~r tried to git ‘em to kill dey whit~ folks an‘ take

But i~that us want to kill old Marster an.‘ take de lan‘ when dey

frien‘s us had? Dey caught de Nigger an‘ hung ‘im to a limb.

	“Plenty folks b‘lieved in charms, but I didn‘ take no stock in such truck. But I don‘t lak for de moon to shine on me when I‘S asleepin‘.

	“De young Niggers Is headed straight for hell . All dey think ‚ bout is d,rinkin‘ ha.vd likker, ‘ to dance halls ‚ an ‚ a-ridin‘ in a old rattle trap car. It beats ail how de~ brags an‘ wastes thingsf Dèy amt one whit happier dan folks was in m~r day. I was as proud to git a apple as dey is to g it a pint ‘ likker. Cours e, schools ‘ p some ‚ but looks ]~ak all moe‘ o‘ de young‘n‘s is studyin‘~‘ ‘bout is how to git out o‘ hones‘ labor.

	~	“I‘se seen a hear o‘ fools what thinks ‘cause they is wise in books, they is wise in ail things.

	“Mos‘ all my white folks is gone, now. Marse Randolph Shields is a doctor ‘wayS off in China. I wish I could git word to ‚ im, ‚ cause I know he‘d look after me ii~ he knowed I was ou charity. I prays de Lawd to see‘emellwhenldie.“
while. Dey was a cut a big f igger He was a ginger cake Winston was a slave
when I was to do wid dey lan‘. was de bes‘
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