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	‘1tUs slaves ttend Concord Church,,tho‘ Narse Calvin jine de Seceders and ‘tend New Hope. Why us co to Concord? ‘Cause it too far to walk to New

Elope and not too far to walk to Concord. Us have not ‘nou~h mules for all to	:~:~ ride, and then de mules need a rest. I novr b‘longs to Lethany Presb~rberian Church at ~11iit e Oak • Ye s sah ‚ I thinks everybody ought to j me de church for it‘s de railroad train to git to hebben on.

tLM~arse Calvin went to de war. Hiiii got shot thru de hand. Yankees

c~o31~ and burn up everything him have. Wneeler‘s~nien just ü bad.


	- :	ttAfter freedom I Cot mannish. Wid not a drop of blood in rap but de : - pure Ptfrioan, I sets out to find a niate of de pure breed. ‘Bout de onliest

-	place I could find one of dis hatchin‘, was de Gaillard cjuarter. I niarry Gabrielle. Live Lust years at de Walt I3rice ~Cullough place, then move to

‚..	de Vinsön place, then to de preacher Erwin place. Da~ was -a fine preacher, ~ - I : ~ pastor for Concord. Hirn lak to swap hosses. ~4h~n hirn come down out de ~ - pulpit him looks ‘ro~d, see ahOsS hin lak, soon as riot him g° home to dinner

~:	wid deowner o±~ dat. hoss. After dinner him say: ‘If it ~rasn‘-b de Sabbath,

-...	how would you trade dat hoes fo-r n~,r.hoss?‘ More words pass bet~reen them, jüst

~‚ . supposint all de -birne it was ~onday. Then Mr. Erwin ride back dere nex‘ day

~	and come back wid de 3aoss him took a fancy for-. . -

~ ~	ttW4r• ~rw‘in ±i~ve ~then~he git a call to -Texas. I moves to deEpb ;~ - - Sinoiiton place. Frcxnt dere I Coes to dé Jim Brice place, now owned-by young ~: ~rse James Brioe. I beendere 32 years. Gabrielle and me generate.thirteen

ì:~ -~--ehiilun; full bloodednatural born Africans, seven boys and six gals. Then k-,. ~ ..-- G~brielle die and I-marry Julia Jenk~s. Us have five chillun, one boy ~d

four gal s • I ‚ s	done a heap for ~ country • I want s Nr, Roo sevelt to hear irtaybe b.i~m make de ooun~ry do sumpin‘ for rne.tt
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