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	~x.~s1ave Stories	Page Thrée
	(Texas)






	“Massa didn‘t like his niggers to marry ou tue place, bu~t sometime. they‘ d. c~o it, and massa tell his ne ighbor ‚ ~My nigger ~in comm ‚ t o you pi ace. Make h im~ behave • ~ 4~1 the ni~e rs ~ ha~e& then and. they wann ‚ ~ no Hu~nt avilie and. gallows and burnin‘s then. ~

	.	“Old massa went to war with his boy, Billie, Theyts lots of cry1n~ and weepin‘ when they sot us free. Lots ‚ of them did& t want t o be free ‚ ‚ cause they knowed nothin1 and hrid. nowhere to go. Then what had good massas staye&
	right on.	~	— -

	t, I tmmember s when that Ku Klux -bus ines. s tart s up. Smart nigger. causes that. The carpet-badgers ruint the nigger. and thewhite iiien couidn,‘~ c1~ a thing with thera, so they got up the Ku. Xiux and stirs up the world. Thera carpet~ baggers come round larnth‘ niggers to sass the white folks what d.one fed. them. They come to pa with that talk end. he told them, ‘Listen, white folks, you is gwine start a graveyard if yoti come~ round here teachin‘ nig~ers to sass white

folks.~ Them carpet-.baggers etarts all the trouble at ‘lections in Reccnstruction. Ni~gørs didn‘t know ~nythin‘ tmbout politics.

	‚ NMOs$ theyoung nigger. ain‘t usi& the education they got now, I~s been here eighty years and .tili has to be showed end told. b! white folks. These young niggers wontt git told by whites or blacks either. They thinks they done knowed it ail and. that gits them in trouble.

	~	‘II stays wtth the Cavins moe‘ twenty years after the war. Mter I :..ieav~~s, I ailus farms said does odd jobs round town here. I‘s father of ten

~.:*i].1en by one ~Eman. I lives by myself now arid they gives me $13.00 a month. Itd be proud. to git it i~ it wasntt more‘n a dollar, ‘cause they ain‘t nothin‘

~a o~ man c~an do no more.
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