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and laughing and playing happy darkie,
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until the cows come home
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Now there were corrupt black politicians
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and there were corrupt white politicians
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I don't really have time to go into
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all the great biographical stories of the Robert Smalls'
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and the John Roy--the Robert Smalls' of South Carolina
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and the John Roy Lynch's of Mississippi,
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and so many others, many of whom were former slaves,
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although some of them had been free before the war,
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by their own purchase, by manumission, by other means
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Some of them, only a small percentage,