Oklahoma Writers‘ Project
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thc rain and. he git cold, but de sheep amt t got sense enough to git in the shelter but jest stand out and. let it rain on him all day.

	But the good Lord fix the sheep up wid a woolly jacket that turn the water off, and he don‘t git cola, ~ he don‘t have to have no brains.

	De nigger during slavery was like de sheer. He couldnt t take care of hisseif but his Master looked out for him and he didntt have to use his brains. De masterts protection was like de wooly coat.

	But de ‘mancipation come and. take off de woolly coat and leave de nigger wid no protection and he caintt take care of hisseif either.

	~ihen de niggers was sot free lots of them got mighty uppity, and everybody wanted to be a delegate to sømethin~ or other. The Yankees told us vie could go down and. vote in the ‘lections and our color was good enough to run for anything. Heaps of niggers believed them. You caintt fault them for that, ‘cause they didn‘t have no better sense, but I 1~iowed the black folks di&n‘t have no business mixing in imtil they ]mowed. more.

	It was a long time after the Viar before I went dorn to vote and everything quiet by that time, but I haardpeople talk about the fights at the schoolhouse when they had the first election.

	.	I jest stayed on around the old place ~ox1~ time, and then I got on another piece of ground and farmed, not far from Greenville until 1900. Then I moved to Ream, Texas, and stayed with my son ~d until 1903 when we moved to ‘Sapulpa in the Creek Nation. ~Ve come to Tulsa several years ago, and T been 1&ving wit1~ Miii ever since~

	I can‘t move off my bed ±i~ow, but one time I was strong as a young bull. I raised seven boys and seven girls. My boys was named Edward, Joseph, Purney, Julius, James, and William, and my girls ~ ~ ~ Chanie

.	MamI e ‚ Rebecca and Sus le.