do‘ eu‘ watch de white folks at dey big dauces an‘ parties. I~ folks was pow‘ful nice to us an‘ we ruised a passel er chullun ‚—~~ dar. All oi~ ‘exa ‘ceptin‘ three be daid now. George is de oldes‘ of those lef‘. He‘s a bricklayer, caroenter, preacher, au‘ laos anything else he ‘cides to call hisse‘f. He‘s got 19 or 20 chullun, I dis‘mernbers which. Edith ain‘t got so many. She live up North. I lives wid i~iy ~ther darter an‘~her gal. I named her afte‘ ray sisters. Her name is Anna Luvenia Hulda Larissa sane Bell Young I~IcL‘1i11an, Dere may be more‘n dat now, but any~..~ys dere is five generations livin‘.

ç~	ttWhat I think ‘bout slav‘ry? Vieil, leetle Miss, I

ttell you, I wish it was back. Us was a lot better off in dem

kays dan we is now. ir dem Yankees had leV us ‘lone we‘d

( been a lot ~appie r. ~e wouldn ‚ been on ‚ lief an ‚ old age pen~

i~	sion fer de las‘ three years. ~n‘ Janie May, here, I b‘lieve,

J sure as goodness, would‘a been de Missus‘ very smartes‘ gal,

~	an‘ would‘a stayed wid her in de Big House lak I did.“



Note:	This autobiography is exactly as related by the Negro to the field worker with.exception of a few changes in spe1ling~ Phraseology is the same.. ~
B.Y.
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