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and . attr de surrender he iv.‘ ist h. &rksnaa. t.r~ go ~ an‘ nvar oo~ back no

mors. Soie of de older peoples, dey vent baok to Alabs~a tie. er two and seen oie mare ~it I nebbsr did git to aee him since us wae aot fr.e ~it

Mare ~‘.rr, he ccmed here ai]. de way fr~ de hc~ in Alabma way atter he waa

growed. It‘a been ‘bout fifty year now since de ti~ he was her. and I eure wee proud to see him, dat I wasp bose, ‘cauee I &ws did lovs Mar. left and I loves hin yii to dia day iffen h. still lives and iffen h. daid which I ain‘t never heered er not, den I lovee and ‘epecte h. na~ory.

	~	~Taa euh1 boss, times is changed sirs t~~pi~ ~it ilk. I ‚ plained white roi~e and it‘s de aa~ wid niggera, ao is good and tryc ts lib en eoi~ don‘ keer and jus‘ turns boss en don‘ restrain de~uas]Tu0 ~Tou know, bose, ders i. heap. of niggera w~d‘~whit. blood in ~a. was etarted way back yonder I reckon ‚ ror. I was ever born.d,

j	I knowed it waa lông afore den 1~at lt waen‘t ~ kine e~ whit. folks t eponsible for dat ‚ it was de low class liks eo~ of de oberseers and den

8oe~ of de yothar folks like for instance de furriners what used to cc in de country and work at jobs de mars ud give ‘em to do on ths places lik carpsntrying an‘ sich. I knowd on. bad case, boas, dat bappened right der. by u. place and dat was de oberseer who ‘aponsible for dat and he was d oberseer for a widow ~ian what lived in Uelena and die white man runned de place eu‘ he hab he nigger oman and she de ~ma of ‘bout six chiflun by die ‘flan I tellin‘ you ‚ bout, three gals and three boya ‚ and dem chillun sigh ‘bout white and look just lik hin and dn h. move off to eo~ yother part of de county and he git uiarri.d der. to a white cmmn but he take h. nigger fambly wid hin just de eei~ and he built dm a houes in de n~iddl. of de place hsdone bou~it and he keep ‘ein der. eban though he done got hin a ihits wife who he lib wid siso end, boas, ein.. I don. told you he n~ don‘t te~
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