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wuz safter dan at dat place . De next in‘ dem Yankees moved frum dar an. ‚ dey am ‚ t corne back fer nothin ‚
	tiWe wuzn‘t happy at de surrender an‘ we cussed

oie Lorahain Lincoln all ober de place. We w~iz told de disadvantages of not havin‘ no edercation, but shucks, we doan need no book lamm‘ wid oie xn~ster ter look atter us.

	“Iv~r mammy ant pappy stayed on dar de rest of dere lives,an‘ I stayed till I wuz sixteen. De Ku Klux Klan got atter me den about fi~htin‘ wid a white boy. flat ni~‘ht I slipped in de woods an‘ de next ~y I went ter Raleigh. I .~ot a job dar an‘ eber‘ since den I‘se wucked. fer myself ‚ but now I can‘ t wuck an‘ I wish dat yo ‚ would apply fer mi oie a,~ed pension fer me.

	“I went hack ter de oie plantation long as n~ pappy, marnm~r, an‘ de marster an‘ missus lived. Sometimes, i~fnen I gits de chanct I goes back now. Course now de slave canins am gone, ever‘ body am dead, an‘ dar ain‘t nothin‘ familiar tcept de bent Catawba tree; but it ‘minds me of de happy days.“
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