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~.	‘Aunts CharityAnderso.n. (!~~ay!)


	Charity Anderson, who believes s}ie is 101 years old, was born

~t Bell‘s Landing on the Alabama River, vthere her owner, Leslie

Tohnson, operated a wood—yard, which supplied fuelto the river

steaniers, and e tavern where travelers whiled away. the delays of

~	dubious riverboat schedule. ~

	Rheumat I o and weak ‚ she no longer ventures from her . house

~n Touirninville, on the outskirts of Mobile, but sits with her

turbaned head and bespectacled eyes,~rooking the long hours away

~.n a creaky old che ir ~nd kni.tti. rig or sewing ‚ or Just gazing into

E~ east p~dnted by the crackling flames in the fireplace.

	“I has So much trouble gittin‘ up and down de steps and ober ~ ~roun‘, I ~Tist makes myself happy heah, c~3use,~thank de Lawd~ r?se on Zionts March,“ is her resIgned conmient.

	“Missy, reoples don‘t live now; and niggers ain‘t got no ~nners ‚ and doan ‚ know nothin ‚ ‘bout weit in ‚ on folks ~ I kIn

remember de days w~én I was one of de houseservaiits. Dare was

~x of us in de oie Massa‘s house~ne, Saral, Lou, Hester, Jerry

~	JOC. Us clid‘n‘ know nothin‘ but good tir~s den. My job was

lookin‘ atter d e corriertable whar nothint but de desserts set.

~~oe and rerry, dey was ~e table boys. Dey neber tetched nothin‘

~d dere hen‘s, but used de waiter to pass things wid.“

	“My oie Massa was a good man. He treated eU his sieves

kind, and took göod kere of ‘em. But, honey, all de white folks 1,yrnvt good to dere slaves. I‘s seen po‘ niggers ‘mos‘ tore up by

~	end whupped‘teli deybledw‘en dey did‘n‘ do lak de ~friite