Folklore:	Stories From Ex-Slaves
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	“I have been preach.in~ many years in colored Methodist churches. I have 7 children, 22 ~rand-~chi1dren but rio great-~.grand..~ children .•

	„ I think Abraham LincolA was a ~reat man, and Jefferson ~vis, too. Booker ~iashington was a grand eduóator ~or the colored race. Bishop S.D. Ohappell, colored preacher of the ÂOM.E. church South, one time president of Allen University at Columbia,S.C. was a great colored man, too. Fie went to Nashville, Tenri. as secre~ary-. treasurer of the Sunday School Union.

	t?1 don‘t believe slavery vvas good --~ much better for all

of us now.

	“I joined the church when I was young, because I thought

it right to be a in€mber. ï think everybody ought to ~oin some church, and they oughtto join early in life, when quite young.“


Source:	Rev. Thomas Harper (84), N~wberry,S.C., interviewed by:
	~.L. Summer, Nev~berry, S.C. iv~ay 21, 1937.