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dere. Colored people dontt pay no ‘teDtion to what white folks call

love, -e:rie~r just ‘sires de woman they wants, dat‘s all. I ~arried dat
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	nan of mine, Ti1g~nan Thompson, and us £~Ot ‘long right smart, ttil he

die. I ~ot tnother one, Anderson Johnson, and he die too, so here I is, left here ylt.

tIYOU knows de black man has had a long, hard road to travel


	since he was first brought to cAlls country. From de first, b~e b‘long to de wiiiteman to be took care of a~id to work. Some colored fo1~ tpear to be dom‘ right well dese days but back yonder long befo‘ I was born, i~S been told, they didn‘t know how to provide for themselves. What I wants to know, what de ni~er gwine to do widout de ~ s I stanc e of de white man? What they has got come from thèm, you knows dat • I hear some of them growlin‘ !round, dat they is ~wine to do dis and gwine do~ (jat and they don‘tdo nothin‘, cept talk too much. They sho‘ better do riQht, live in peace and git somethin‘ dat will stay with them. ‘1~Maybe ~ s wrong to say dis but you knowz,white man ‚ de nigger is a far way back of de white man; his time ain‘t come ylt, leastwise datts de way it ‘pear to me. De niccer come from Africa and other hot places, so he takes after de hot country he come from and has a short temper, hard head, and not ?nough sense to keep him out öf troubLe when he g~s mad or ‘cite~~. ~When he coma herd, de white man made him work, and he didn‘t like dat. He is natc}~ally lazy and when he had to work, then he 1e~an to get huffy and to conjure up in he mind hate end other bad things against de whites. Ever since the first time de nigger found out he had to work, he has silently despis ed the white man. If he had lived and done nôthin‘,







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