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and banjo lai‘ • I lied two o hi 1 lun but dey died and my wife d led a long, long time ago.

I just hear,cI a little bout Abraham Lincoln. I believe he wuz a

good man • I just hed a s light remembrance of Abraham Linco lu and Jef-~ ferson Davis • I have heard of Booker ~ T • Wàshington ‚ felt just de saine bout im. A pretty good iran.

	I th ink lt WUZ a great thing uhat s lavery anded ‚ I would not 11k to see it now.

	I joined de Baptist ehuroh but I have been runnin‘ round from place to pla ce • ~e always pros per and get ~along with our fe Ilowinen if we are religious.

De overseer wuz poor white trash. His rules were you hed to

be out on de plantation before daylight. Sometimes we hed to sit ~vou±id
on de fence to wait for daylight and we did not go in before dark.	We
go in bout one for mea ls .	~