SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

I supports lay own self* I works and I preaches a little yet*
I saved up some money but it nearly give out* The young generation,
some of them, do mighty bad* Some of them is all right* Some of
them don't do much and don Y t save nothing* X owns this house and
did own another one what burned down* A lamp exploded and caught it
while I was going off up the road but I never looked back or I would
have seen it* It seem lack now it takes more money to do than it ever
did in times before* Seems like money is the only thing to have and
get* Folks gone scottch crazy over money, money! Both is changing*
The white folks, I f m speaking bout, the white folks has changed and
course the colored folks keeping up wld them* The old white and
colored neither can f t keep up wid the fast times* I say it f s the
folks that made this depression and it Y s the folks keeping the de-
pression. The little fellow is squeezed clear out* It out to be
stopped* Folks ain f t happy like they used to be* Course they sung
songs all the time* Religious chourses mostly*
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