3.	44:

‘ligion. He takes ~fl dat from white folie. 3o many think ‘ligion j~ gwine to git them somethin‘ widout workjn# for it and fool people by makin‘ them think they is good and can be t rusted end all dat • But I ‘spects some of them is right ‚ even at dat ‚ ‘cause if t hey am ‘t got ‘ligion ~bhey sho ‚ am ‘t got nothin ‚ in dis world. I pays no ‘tent ion to all dis ‘gwine on ‚ lak I see some ‘ligious folks does. Maybe I wouldn‘t be inde fix I is, if I paid more ‘tention to churches and aU date I believes in churches and good folks but I don‘t practice them good things lak I ought to. Boss, if you take de dollar out of ‘ligion and de churches, you sho‘ *o.uld have to huntfor them. I believes dat. I don‘t see no ‘ciples gwine ‘bout a preachin‘ and dom‘ good, 1ELk I has heard they once done, barefooted and askin‘ no pay. De preachers dese days is a ridin‘ in de finest automobiles and you sho‘ better lookout for yotarseif, if you don‘t, you is gwine to glt run over.

	‚t I has been a good man, in body, all de time since I got grown. For many years I didn‘t know my own strertgth. I never seen a bale of cOtton ï couldn‘tpick up end tote where I wanted to, by myself. You see dese foots of mine? They was mashed off, from drappin‘ bales of cotton on them, back yonder many years ago.

~.	I, ~ ‘members mighty well, ~ihen de fust skyscraper was built in Columbia. My bosses was one of de fust to have a office in dere.Dat was de loan and Exchange Bank Building, on de corner of V~ashington and Main streets. I has been here and seen dis city grow from a small place to what you see ‘~tis now.

	s‘ My mammy and daddy b‘long to Mr. Andrew Johnson of Orangeburg County, of dis State. They said dat they was treated mighty good by deir marster all de time they was slaves. My daddy took his old marster‘s name. I was born a Slave but all I knows is what I has heard. Some of it might be right and some might be wrong. ~

•: (.a) Verification not available.