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‘member ~ him whip n.b~dy. He dlthi‘t ‘løw no Ill treatment. All de folks round he place say he nIgg~rs x~int and spoi1ed~,

	“Dc li~l white folks ~ nigger f~lks jus‘ play reund like bru.dder and. sister and us ~ll eat a,t de white table. I slep‘ In de white folks hiuse, tie. My g.dfather and ~edmether was rich white feiks. I still Çath‘lic.

	‘sI seed sejers but I t~. li‘? t. kxicr ~ ‘beat des. Dey didn‘t .werry me a-tall. I d1dn~t git dise te de battle.

	“My mammy weave cloth ~ut cetten ~nd w~el. I tmembcr dc lion. It go Ibi,11b..bo~m~..b~a~I.? Dat d~e shuttle gemt cross. My dddy, he dc smart man.

I‘ll never be like him leng as hive In die world. He make shies. He build hiuse. He de aiything. He arid ray mammy neIther inc ever been brutalize!.

	“Dc firet work I dine w~?.s raisin‘ cetton and. sugar cane ~nd sweet and Irish 1tatere. I uced to ceik sugar.

	“I marry in twenty—secend. cf February. L~v wife was Medora Labir. She been dead thirty~-five year new. I never marry ne second woman. • I l‘~we ~n~r wife s, much I never want nabedy else. Us had six chilien. ~ am livin‘.

	“Gain1 back wh~ I a slave, massa h2ire a stire. When dc priest c~me de7 : held church ixi dat stire. Old massa. have ccv‘ ra]. beys. Dey went after some de slave gals. Dey hrve chilien by dem. Dem g~1c have dere cabine and dere ehulen, ihat am half ~~hIte.

~:•	“After while, dem beys marry. Th~t dey alius treat dev chilien by de slave y:w.rn.ens g..d. Dey white wife treat dem gs.d, te., mist like dey dere own chilien.


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