Oklahoma Writers‘ Project
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	I always been a deep Christian an~1 depend on God. and know his unseen Son, the King of Glory. I learned about Elm when I was a little boy. old. Master was a good. man, but on some of the plantations the masters wasntt good- men and. the niggers didn1t get the Word.

	I never did get no reading and writing tca~ise I never did the schools. I thought I was too big, but they had schools and the went. ~

	.	But I could figger, and I was a good farmer, snd now I b,less the Lord for all his good works. Everybody don‘t know it I reckon, but we all needed each other. The blacks needed the whites, and still do.

	There‘s a différence in the color of the skin, but the souls is all white, or all black, ~Dending on the mants life and. not on his skin. The old fashioned. meetings is busted ut into a thousani different kinds of churches and only one G~d to look after them. All is confusion, but I ain1t going to worry my old. head about gem.
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