~!x—s1ave St on es ~ (Texas)
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~b•ut Mr. Frwtk Tz~lb,t, wh~in ~m tak~.n‘ seine niggers to Texas and I goes with him ts the Brazis River bottom, and wirke there two years. Vs lonesome fir (nasse, and z~issy and if I‘d been diet enough, ltd ~j~t gone back to the old. plantation. Si after two years I quits and ~es to work for Mr. Winfield Scott down in Brewnwo~d, inthe gin, f•r seventeen years.

	‚t Well ‚ shortly aft er I gi ts t s Br.wawe.d I inset s and. after dat I d.ntt care te go back t. Alabama es h2rd. Dee Smith on December the eighteenth, in 1880, and us live years. She died six years ag•. Us have six iMlien, b~zt I .me of theta are now. They all f.rgit their father in his not s• young, either.

	“My woman could write a littió s. she write missy far me, and she write back and wish us luckr~nd ifwe~ ever wants to c•me back to the .ld. h•me we Is welcome, Us writeback~fl&f•rth with her, Fiially, us git the letter what say she sick, and then awful low. That ‘bout twenty4ive years after I marries. That ~xn toe much for me, aztd I cotches the next train back t o Alabama but I git s there te e late • She ~m dead ‚ and I never has forgive myself, tcause I don‘t g; back bef.‘ she die, like she ask us t~, lots if times, ~

III	comes børe fifteen years a~. and here I be. The last six

I caz‘t work ii the paclcia‘ plants n. mire. ~ t.. •ld.. A~ythiz~g I t o d.• I d.e ‚ but it am ‚ t w,ueh *• mire. ~ ~ ~

	“The worst grief I‘i had, ~. t. think I didn‘t go see ais~~y dies l‘s never f.rgawe myself fir that.
a yaller gal l‘s married to together many don‘t know where old ‘a~ge! They
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