C. T. Suddeth

This is, I believe, from the WPA. My awe of these ex-slaves is near what I have for Hitler’s concentration camp survivors. May they rest in peace.

WILLIAM BRANCH, born 1850, 322 Utah St., San Antonio, Texas. William kneels at his bedside each evening at five and says his prayers. In this ceremony he spends a half hour or more chanting one Negro spiritual after another. (Texas Slave Narratives 1936-1938)