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My father died at the age of 63 in Earlington, Kentucky, where he had gone to take charge of a village school for his health. I was just eight years old when he died and left mother with six children to clothe and care for. Later in life, I went to Mississippi with my mother, where I enrolled as a student of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, a school for the colored male youths of Mississippi. I continued as a student for a few years until force of circum stances compelled me to start into the world for myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
