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yaxbd it was a great b 1g plac e ‚ ‘ the y w immen e ooked for ‚ em and raised the chilluns. ~
ttYOu know, they lays a heap o~ stress on edication

these days. But edication is one thing an‘ fireside trainint is another. We had fireside trainin‘ .

~	“We went . to church regular ~ All our people marched behind our owners, an‘ sat up in the galle‘y o~ the white folks church. NOW, them that went to St. James Church behind their white folks didn‘ dare look at nobody else. ‘Twant allowed. They were taught they were better than anybody else. That was called the ‘silk stockint church. Nobody else was fitten to look at.

ttI~y rnothe r was the un‘ ess for ~ the white fo iks.

In those days ladies wore dot es ‚ an‘ plenty of ‚ em. My daddy was one of the part Indian folks. i~y mammy was brought here from. ~ashin‘ ton City ‚ an‘ when her owner went back home he sold her to my folks • You I~iow ‚ round~ Washin‘ ton an‘ up that way they was Ginny (Guinea ) ~ niggers, ‘ that ‚ s what my rnarnniy was • We had a lot of the s e rnalatto negro es round here, they was called tt5huffer Tonies“, they wasfree issues and part mdi an • The le ade r of ‚ em was Jame s Samps on • We

	ii en was told to play in our own. yard and. not have • nothin‘ to do withfree issue chii‘en or the coimnon chil‘en

tcross the. street, white or colored, because they was‘nt Litten

to~ ‘sociate with us. You see our owners was rich folks.