Stories From EX—Slave$ (Geo. Brlggs)
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T‘ath‘t rio sech thing a~ drappirig back. If you draps back, you ain‘t never been no child of de Lawd, and you never had no business being baptized. Christ was baptized in de waters of Jordan, won‘t (weren‘t) He? Well, He never drapped back, did 11e? He say we must follow in Hi$ footstep$, didn‘t He? Well,. dar you is ‚ and ~ dat ‚ s all dar is to it..

	“God gits in de heads of men to help de aged and de pO‘ also. I never axes fer nothing, but when I sets around de courthouse and inform5 men as I been doing dis evening, de Lawd has dem. to drap a nickle or adirne or a quarter in my hand but He never gits dem to a half of a dollar.“


Source : George Brig~s ‚ (88.) Bt . 2, Union, S . C.
Interviewer: Caldwell Sims, Union, S.C. (7/l2,~37)
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