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white folks throw in dere trash pile en sum ob hit I sell ter~~ de papah en junk dealers. De white peeple he‘p me now also.“

	“I g~Id dem sell a lot ob slaves in Mississippi,jes‘ lak hosses en hogs, one time Wt&~ de Marster-~en Mistress made a trip down dere. Lots ob times dey made trips tround de kuntry ~en dey allus tuk me t long. I se‘d sum cru‘ 1 Mar6ters dat hitched up dere slaves ter plows en made dem plow lak hosses en mules did.“

	“Atter de slavea got der~ freedum, dey had ter look atter denjselves~o dey WOUld Wuk on plantations till dey got so dey could rent a place, lak you rent hou~ses e~i farina terday. Sum got places whar dey w~td fer wages.“

	“I voted three times in mah life but lawdy dat wUZ a long time ago. Iyoted fer Teddy Roosevelt en WoodrowWilson, en mah~la~t vote wuz tbout two ylars past ‚~

	“Hab notales handed d~w~ by mah peeple. W‘en I wou]~:1 try ter git info‘mation, atter I got o‘ 1er, all dey would say

-	wuz ‚ “You wuz raised on a bottle en hab n~ peeple ob ~‘ou~owr~.“ “Oh mah goodness!. Hit jes part lises me ter see how dem

young peeple ez doi~‘ terday. Lawdy hab mercy but dere ez a~ much difftentfum ole times as day en nite en hit looks lak things hab gone astray. Wuz tole lots tb0~t de Ku Klux Klan en how dey Wou]L1 catch en wh~p de cuBed peeple, but mah white f~]ks made me stay in en dey neber got me,~ •

	.	“1membeJ~‘ seem‘ Ardrew Jackson, General Grant en Abraham Lincoln, member seeizi‘ GeneralAndrew Jackson gittin ready f ex‘ ‚ *ar by mare hit hi. s so Id 1ers erroun‘ ~ I ~‘ d t im r Id e bis big whi te ‘ho sa up en down ter see: how dey marched ~„

: .. ~ ~ sonp~ I lack‘d best öb aliwuz, tMah 01e Mam)~ry ez be‘d. ~‚x~ ~ ~ ~!I~ me.:Sit B~!.ne~ath de~‘~Willow Tree.‘ Don‘t member
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