E~xQs1ave Stories	Page Three
(Texae)





	“Then freed~i cries and the master say~ we all frei and I goes to Houston with isy mami~. We steys with a old colored woman what has a house her old master d~one give her and I finishes growin‘ there and works soue, But then I comes to Galveston and hired out hers and. I been worktn‘ for these white folks 24 year now.