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	Ei-slave Storie5	Pace Two
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puIlln‘5. Invite e7erybozi.y ~nd p1~r. We had good times. De worst thing, we dI1n‘ never have no schoo1in~ till after I married. Den I went to school two weeks. My husban‘ was teacher. He never was a $1~ve . Hi s father bou~bt freed.om through a bi ~.cksxni th shop ‚ some way.

“I had ~ nice weddlnt . ~ My dress w~s hite an3. trimmed with blue
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ribbon. My second. day dress was white with red dots. I had. a beauti-~ fui veil and a wreath and ‘bout two, three waiters for table dat d2.y.

	~	mother was nearly white. Brighter than me. We left my father in Virginia. I was jus‘ as white as de chilien I played with. I used t o be pluie br ight ‚ but here 3. at ely I ~ ~e t tin ~ awful dark.

	“My 1msban~ was of a mixture ‚ like ‘rou call bri~ht ~in~e r—cake color, i~ d‘ know where he ~ot his le~rnin ~ • I fee]. so bad. since he‘s gone to Glory.

	“Now I~m oie, de LoH bas t~en care of me. He put th~.t spt~it in people to look after oie folks and now i~y chüien look after me. i~ve two sons, one name James Alien, one R.M. Both live in E1 Paso.

	“After we ~o to sleep, de people will know these things, ‘cause if freedom h;~ß.n‘ come, it wx~].d have been so miser~bie.