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	‚I ~ ‚ am de father of seven obi. hun. ~oth daughters married and dey are housekeepers . I have 11 grandohi 1 lun. Three of dem are full grown and married. One of de]n has graduated from high school.

~	“Abrahém Linc oln fixed it s o de s lave s o ould be free • He s truck off de handcuffs and de ankle cuffs from de s laves • But how could I be free if I had to go bac~: to my massa arid beg for bread, clothes and shelter? It is up to everybody to ~iork for freedom.

	“I dontt think dat ~efferson Davus wuz much in favor of liberality. think dat Booker T. Washington wuz a man of de fuis~ inagr4tude. ~Vhen it come to de historiancs I don‘t know much about dein, but according to what I red in dem, Fred Douglas, Christophèr ifatton, Peter Salem, all of dem colored men
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dey wut great men. Christopher)iatton wuz de furst slave to dream of liberty and den shed his blood for it. De three of deni play a conspicuous part in
de emancipation.	-	. ~

	“I think it‘s a good thing dat slavery is ended, for Go4iadn‘t intended there to be no man a slave.

	~hiy reason for joining de church is ‚ de church is said to be de furet born, the general assembly of the living God. I joined it to be in the general assembly of God.

	“We have had too much destrtietive religion. We need pure and u.udefiled religion. If we had dat religion, coxiditions would be de reverse of that dey are.

(Nole: The worker who interviewed this old man was impressed with his deep religious nature and the riaimer in which there would crop out in his conversation the facile use of such words as eveiftually, general, accessible, etc. The interview als o revealed that the o Id men had a knowledge of the scr‘ipture. He c l&ims to be a preacher and duriug the conversation ~ gave indic ations of
the oratory that is peculiar to old style colored preachers.)