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of steadfast coura~e overcome the hand.icaD of race and poverty. They threshed grain with a hickory stick, and made their corn inealby ~rat-~ in€; the ears across a strip of tin with holes punched in it.

	With all her handicaps, this Negro woman has lived to an honorable old age, is seLf-supporting and has the respect of her neighbors. All this she has accomplished despite the fact she was once a chattel and. was frequently “curried down“ with a “cat—‘o-nine tails.“