Oklahoma 1~Vriters‘ Project
	Master Levi had three sons and no daughters. The oldest son was Sinieon. He was in the Sesesh ar~iy. The other two boys was too young. I ~ remember their names. They was a lot younger and. I was grown and out befot they got big.

	Old~ Master was a fine Christian but he like his j~ewleps anyways. He let us niggers have preachings and. prayers ‚ and would give us a parole to go 10 or 15 miles to a cemp meeting and stay two or three days with nobody but Uncle John to stand. for us. Mostly we had white preachers, but~when we had. a black preacher that was Heaven.

	We didn‘t have no voodoo women nor conjure -folks at our 20 acres, ~e aU knowed about the Vlord and the unseen Son of God and we didn‘t put no stock in conjure.

	Cours e we had luck charms and good and bad s igns ‚ but everyb ody go t dem things even nowadays . My boy had a whi t e offi cer in the Big War and he tells me that man 1~ad a,litl old doll tied around his wrist on a gold chain.

	We used herbs and roots for common ailments, like sassafL~, and boneset and peach trée poultices and. coon root tea, but when a nigger got bad sick Old Master sent for a white doctor. I remember that old doctor. He lived thn Greenville and he had to come 18 miles in a buggy.

	Then he give some nigger inedicine‘he would be afraid the nigger

was like lots of them that believed in conjure, and he would say, “if you dontt

take that medicine like I tell you and. I have to come back here to see you I

going to break your dani black neck next time I come out here!“ ~

	~	Then it was bad weather sometime the black boy sent aft er him~ had. to carry a lantern to show him the way back. If that nigger on his mule got

~.: too~fur ahead so old doctor couldnt t see de light he sho ~ ~ äatch de devil from tha~t old doctor and from old Mastei too, 1ess~n he was one of old. M1SSyIS
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