They would always tell us we ate ours up. Sometimes we would be almost naked, barefooted and hungry when the extop was housed and then the landlord would make us leave. We would go to another with about the same results.

	“There was a story going that each slave would~ get forty acres of land and a mule at the end of the war. The Yankees started this story but the mule and land was never given and slaves were turned out v~ithout anything and with

nowhere to go.	.

	“We moved to Wake County and I ~rmèd until 3203. I had not gotten one hundred dollars ahead in all this time so I got a job with the railroad, ~.A.L. Shops in Raleigh, NSC. and that is the only place I ever made any moaey.

	~‘Father died in 1900 arid mother in 1923. I worked f-rom 1903 until 1920 with the S.À.L. Railroad as flunkey. I worked as box packer and machinist‘s helper. Mother and father died without ever o~iing a house but I saved iii~ money while working for the Railroad Company and bought this lot l5?X52-~ and had thiS house built on it. The house has five rooms and cost about one thousand dollars. I‘ve

.	been. so of late years I could not pay my taxes. I am

partially blind and unable to work anymore.“
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