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races in the neighborhood where I was raised--niggers, Indians, and white folks. They never sent the Indians out until 1876 when I was a grown man. They sent them over there to Utah when it became a state. I had a lot of Indian friends that went along at that time. "Bad blood was mixed up there and you couldn't do nothing to anybody and get away with it. First Pair of Shoes "I can remember the first pair of shoes my uncle gave me. They had a little brass on the top of the toes to keep you from kicking them out and skinning them up. That was way back yonder in the fifties. Bible and Church in Slave Time "White people taught their niggers what Bible they wanted them to know. "'Who made you?' "'God.' "'Why did He make you?' "'For his own glory.' "'Why ought you to love God?' "'Because He made me and takes care of me.' "That was all the Bible they wanted you to learn. That, and just a few more things. I could state them all. Education "In 1866, everybody that was less than sixteen years old in South Carolina had to go to school. The little fellows that had been slaves had to go to school, and they got some education. You will hardly find an old man from South Carolina around my age who can't read and write. There was one hundred sixty pupils in my school. All boys. I never went to a mixed school--a school where they had boys and girls both. "The first school I attended was in Ebenezer. I went to high school in Macklenburg. Miss Sallie Good and Miss Mattie Train, Elias Hill, and David G. Wallace--all of these were my teachers. They were all white except Elias Hill. He was the only colored teacher in that section of the country--at that time. "When I finished high school, I went to Biddle University. Biddle was a boys' school. It was in Charlotte, North Carolina. They had a girls' school in Concord, North Carolina. Biddle is still running, but it has another name. Dr. Mattoon was president of Biddle then and Dr. Darling was president of the girls' school. Murders "The first murder ever I saw was Violet Harris killed Warren Fewell. It come over a family quarrel some way. They fell out over something. She was not related to him. It was done right at the fence at her gate. She cut him with a butcher knife--stuck him just once right through the heart. That is the first murder I ever saw. They were both colored. The War was just winding up. It happened in Ebenezer. I don't recall t
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