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S-200	~	Federal Writers‘ Project,Dlst.2.
.	~ WPA Project 3609,Mobile, Ala. CHARLIE AARONS ‚ EX~SLAVE ‚ SAYS HE LOVED

YOUNG MARSTER JOHN.

(Written by Mary A. Poole.)

	Some friends driving to Oak Grove, Ala., gave the writer the opportunity on August 4th to Interview ~n old ex-slave, Charlie Aarons, who is quite venerable in appearance, and who, when asked his age, replied:

	“Madazu I dont know but I sure been ‘round here long tiiue“, and when asked how old he was at the tine of the Surrender he answered:

	“I was a man able to do a man‘s work so I ‘speots I was eigh~een or twenty years old.“

	Uncle Charlie as he is known ~nong his ~n color and the v~1 ite people who knows him, told the writer he was born at Petersburg Va., and his parente, Aaron and Louisa, were owned by a Mr. ~J.H.White, who had a store in the city, but no plantation. His parents had three children, two boys and o~ girl, and when Uncle Charlie was about ten years of age, he waa sold by Mr. White to a speculator named J~ones who brought hini to Mobile. He recalled being placed on the block, at the slave mart on Royal and State streets, and the anxiety of hearing the different people bidding for him, and being finally sold to a Mr. ~ason Harris, who lived near Newton Station in Jasper County, Miss.

	Uncle Charlie never saw or heard of his parents or brother end sister again and never knew what became of thexa.

	Uncle Charlie sai d Mr. Harri s was a pretty rough master, and sœiewhat close, kil rations Were wei~ied out and limited. He