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He said to me that first day, he said,
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'Moses we gonna start with the kitchen.
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A wife needs a place to fix her meals for her family.
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Thas' where we gonna start,' and he bent down and Mastah drove in that
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first nail, bam.
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That was a Monday, Mistress, 'cause Mastah Henry didn't
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believe in startin' somethin' on a Sunday, God's day."
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Caldonia, her hands clasped in her lap, leaned back and
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closed her eyes.
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The story about the first nail came a little more than a month
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after Henry had been in his grave.
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It was gospel among slaves that one of the quickest ways to hell was to