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old age, deir folks and deir friends gives me money, dat keeps ma out de poorhouse.

	t, No, sir, I don‘t ‘member de Q~vi1 War a4a11 myself but I has heard all ‘bout it from my own folks and de white folks I has worked wide It seems lak I knows too much ‘bo~ them awful times. I sho‘ am glad I didn‘t come ‘long then • I feels and knows dat de years after de war was worser than be-. to ‚ . ~ i3efo ‚ de war, niggers did have a place to lie down at night and some— vThere to eat ‚ when they got hungry in slavery time. since them times ‚ a many a nigger has had it tough to make a liv~in‘. I knows dat is so, too, ‘cause I has been all ‘long dere.

‚t Many niggers have gone north to live, since freedom, but de most of
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them either comes back south again or they wants to come back. De north don t

suit de nigger. Cold clin~te lsk they has up dere is too hard on him. H0 has thin blood end you knows dat a thin pan gwine to git hot quicker than a thick one and cold de same way. You see aheap of xiiggers is].ak wild animals, in a way. He laks to eat a heap, sleep a heap, and move ‘bout slow. When he goes up north he has to step ‘round fa8‘, ‘cause if he don‘t, ‘he gits in de way of them Yankees dat move ‘boi.zt quick.

	~	ft De black man is natchally lazy, you knows dat. De reason he talks lak he does, is ‘cause he don‘t want to go to de trouble to ‘nounce his words lak~ they ought to be. When he says ‘dat‘-he saves a letter, sanie way wid ‘dis‘ and nearly all other words • It aim ‘t aft er i‘ so ‚fluch ; he is just too careless and lazy to care ‘bout it. A nigger wants what is in sight and not dat what he can‘t see; it can look out for itself. I is sorry I has to say all dis ‘bout my own color but it is de truth. De tr~xth makes you free and runs de devil. I is a nigger myself and I knows . what they is and what they does.

	t, Is de nigger ‘ligious? Yes ‚ sir ‚ many of them is very ‘ligious widout