Ex~slaVe Stories	Page Three
(Texas).






~	. Benjie dies on February 15th, dis year.(1937). 1 lives with jrthur

~ and de gov‘rnent gives me $io~oo de months I has de lj~1 farmof nineteen acree out near Oak Hill and Floyd, de preacher, lives on dat. ~&ll my boys is good to

~	rile. • Dey done ~ood,.~nd better‘n we could, tcause we couldn‘t git mu~ch lamnin~

~	dem da~ys. Ils had de good life. But we tpreciated our chance inore‘n de young

~ folks does nowadays . Dey h~s so much de~tr don ‘t h~‘ve to try so hard. I f. we ‚ d had what dey got ‚ ~ie ~ d thunk we was done di ed and gone t o Glory Land. Maybe dey‘ Il be ail right when deys growed.