SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

They taught me to do carpenter work. They taught me to paint;
to paper; to cook; work in the field and do most anything. I
cane to my senses while working with those people and they made
a man out of me. When I left there I was a first class carpen-
ter* Those white people was the cause of me getting independent.
I didn't get no book sense, but If you get with some good white
people, that will be worth more than an education."
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