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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939.Shop Now for Xma3Home StoreXmas Budget Accountof $35 to $50 or any desired amountIFORMER SLAVE(Continued from page 1)'dren. As a slave she was own-. . i v .. . i. Botkins on his planiation Antioch, C»a. Her duti. were those of a h'..usi* girl to do thwithout glasses.In trying t0 sum up her view of «vh»t she think, of the past, pres and future, Mrs. Wilks thoughts seemed to be much like those of James Weldon Johnson:“Sing a 's'-r g *if! of the faith thatthe dark past has taugh us. Sing a song full of the hope the present has brought us;Facing the rising sun of our newday begun.Let us march on till victorywon.iddir.g of Air*. Botkin of whom shepc*..is, .. »h kindest regards, uilho she says “I’d loved her better if sh» had taught me to read the Bib’e.” She *1 calls with a show of pri-e how her brotlulr, V mioe, allow, i • i;* o touch him in an act • I nding. anj that in seme ni •• teriou.s way he learned to read. H i mailer, she says, realized how deep* seated was the craving for knowledge anj although he didn’t allow a book in sight before “surrender” he did rect a school on the p.antation afterwards but then she was too hap py being a wife and opportunity f Ippod by.'1 In- rad hours „f the days before •ndcr were mostly occasions how masters like “the Hawthornes, 0n a nearby plantation, treat d'the?r slaves. Kvep her master hated Hawthorne, and his kind, blit the years of freedom and th •un roamed of i chievemonts of ’I c rare, and a c ' gious faith tem» cr» '•'I with simple living have left Mrs. Wilks without bit! ^nd runcor.She likes t0 sew, the makingof -uiltg has become an art with hors H* '-••ui; i?nd 'threads her need a
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The Dayton Forum
Dayton, Ohio, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1939
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