O1:lahoina Writerst Project
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it vias a sh~xne he 1ia~. married his sister and dey bad nine chillun. ~Iy husband. sho‘ to1d~ me dis.

	I‘ve heerd tem say dey old master raised chillun by those cullud women.

•..‘hy, there was one white man in Texas had a cullud. woman, but didn‘t have no chillufl by her, and he had this cullud woman an~ her old. mistress there on the SIUT1C Diace. So, when old Mistress died he v~ouldntt let this cullud. woman leave, and he gave lier a swell home right there on the ~?lace, and she is still there I ~uess. They say she say sometime, she didn‘t want 4o i~egro men smutting her
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	I think Abraham Lincoln was a good. man, and. I have read a whole lots ‘bout him, ‘out I don‘ t i~iOV7 much ‘bout Jeff Davis. I think Booker T. Washington is a fine man, but I amt heerd so much about him.