"Yes ma'm, I believe in spirits—you got two spirits—one bad and one good, and when you die your bad spirit here on this earth.
Now my mother comes to see me once in awhile at night. She been dead till her bones is bleached, but she comes and tells me to be a good boy. I always been obedient to old and young. She tell me to be good and she banish from me.
My grandmother been to see me once.
Old Father Abraham Lincoln, I've seen him since he been dead too. I got a gun old Father Abraham give me right out o' his own hand at Vicksburg. I'm goin' to keep it till I die too.
Yes ma'm, I know they is spirits."
Pine Bluff District
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS
Interviewer: Martin - Barker
Subject: Ex-Slave
Story.
Information by: Tom Windham
Place of Residence: 1221 Georgia St.
Age: 87
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My master was an Indian. Lewis Butler of Oklahoma. I was born and raised in Muskogee, Okla.