Marriage

"They married in that time by standing up and letting someone read the

ceremony to them. My master was a Christian. There wasn't no jumpin'

over a broomstick on my master's place. The white folks didn't have no

nigger preacher for their churches. But the colored folks had 'em. They

preached out of these little old Blue Back Spellers--leastways they was

little blue back books anyhow.

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