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1arnifl~ we gits. Does he cotch you with de book or paper, he whip you hand down. He don‘t whip de old fo]k~ none, jeu‘ de young bucks, ~cause dey wild and. mean and dat de onhies‘ way dey larns right from wrong.
	“I tells you	‘ like I tells everyone .. folks had heap more sense

in slave times dayi dey has now. Lone as a nigger do right, old inarse pertect him, Old Marse feed he niggers good, too, and we hae plenty clothes. Course, dey homemade on de spinnin ‚ wheel ‚ but dey good. De ehoes j es ‚ like ‘ t enti ary shoes, only not fix up so goode Old }vthi~ kill ~. cOw for meat and take de hide to de tanner and Uncle Jim make dat hide into shoes. Dey hard and heavy and. hurt de feets, but dey wear like ~rou has iron shoes.

	“Old Marse dontt wo± heniggers Sunday like some white folks do. Dat de
	d~j we has church meet in~ under trees . De spirit	‘ e or:~e down out de sky and
	you forgits all you troubles,	~

	I, Slave times was de best ‚ ~ cause cull~.d folks am 1g‘ rant and alu‘ t got no Sense and in Slave times white folks show dem de right way. Now dey is free, dey gits uppi~ty and sassy. Some dese young bucks o~xght to git dere heads whipped do~m . Dat I am dem manners.

	“Freedom wasn‘t no dlff‘rence I knows of. I works forMarse John jes‘ de same for a long time. He s~y one mornin, ‘John, you c~i go out in defield iff en you wants to, or you can git out iffen you wants to, ‘cause de gov‘mentteay you Is free0 if you wants to work I~ll feedyou and give you clothes but can‘t pay you no money. I am‘ t got ~ Thimph, I didn ‚ t know nothin ‚ what money was, nO1i~w, but I ‘knows i‘il git plenty victu~als to eat so I stays till Old. marse die

ex4 old mies git ehet o~ de place. Den I gits me a job farniln‘ and when I gits ~ for dat I does die and dat for white folks, likes fixin‘ yards.


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