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Some dropped out to get work along* Some fell out sick* Some so weak
they died long the road* Had to keep up* Some stopped; they never
caught up no more* Mostly old folks or half starved folks couldn't
keep going* The Ku Klux whoop and shoot you down for any little
thing. They started at night, fraid of the Yankees but they whooped and
run them out and the Negroes left* The Ku Klux got so bold they didn f t
dress up nor go at night neither* At first they was careful then they
got bold* The Yankee soldiers bout all they was afraid of* The Negroes
found out who some of the Ku Klux was and told the Yankees but it didn't
do much good* After bout twelve years all the Yankees gone back home$
The white folks down in Carolina thought bout as little of them as Ne*-
groes. They wouldnH let them have no land if they did have money to pay
any price for it* They didn f t want them living amongst them* They say
they rather have a Negro family*
"The biggest Negro uprisin* I ever seed was at freedom* They riz
up in a hurry*
W I had to stop and work all along* I got to Arkansas in 1881* I
never went no further* I been all my life farming I cut and sell wood,
clear land* The best living was when I farmed and sold wood* I bought
a 10 acre farm and cleared it up graduly, then I sold it fer $180*00
cause I got blind and couldn't see to farm it* I had a house on it*
I own this here house (a splendid home)* My daughter and her husband
come to take care me* They come from Cincinatti here* She made $15*00
a week up there three years* I get $8*00 a month now from the Social
welfare. If I could see I could make money*
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