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	.	I, ~ fore Freedum de slaves wuz promtised forty acres ob 1a~. w‘en freed but none eber got hit, en I tyear‘d ob no one gittin‘ arty money. I dunno~nuthin‘ ob de slave ‘risin‘s, ghostus er dreams, but I member mah folks talkin‘ Ibout Lahm‘ sta‘rs en a comet but I don‘ member now wtat dey said.‘1
. .	“I‘se w~jk‘d at a lot ob diff‘ent jobs since mah freedum.

I wukid at de Maxwell House 15 years a~ store room porter, en hit wuz de onlywo‘th-‘while hotel in Nashville at dat time‘.

I wuktd fuh de. City fWa menny y‘ ars en den I wu~ktd fuh Foster & Creighton ttill dey wore me out. I off‘n ththk ob deze difflntmen dat I wu~k‘d fuh but~dey ez all de‘d. De last“ job I had w~z buildin‘ fiers en odd jobs fuh a lady up de

.	street. She.would gib me food en coal. She ez de‘d now.‘~

‚ - ‚. ‚ n, ~ not ab le t er ~WUk now e n a 11 I ‚ ha ~ ez a sma~].1	‚ groc‘e~ order dat de relief gibs me. Dey keep promisin~ ter gib, me de ~ Age~‘~ Pensiön en I wish dey. would hurr~y bit up.“ - ‚ ‚ .
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