Alabania
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t~reen Beauchamp atWhite Oak ~pr1ngs, near Eufaula.

	Massa Green was a member of de legislature when de capital wuz at Tuscaloosy. He had many a acre of land an‘ hund‘eds of slaves. Pappy use to dribe de wagon in to Eufaula to git supplies an‘ on de way he would meet up wid an Injun gal a~carryin1 big baskets dat she wuz a goin‘ to sell dere. He would ask her iffen she wanted to ride, an‘ she

~ always say yes. So one day pappy caine to de massa and. tel). him dat der~

~ wuz an Injun gal. on de St. Francis Indian Village dat he wanted fo‘ a

~ viife, an~ de boss say all right so pappy married de I~di~ gal. Her

~ naine wuz Mimi. So I is half nigger an half Injun. My mammy cUed ‘bout

I~ five year atter freedom, but I can remembers dat she had. long black hair, and I remembers de way de sun sparkle on her teeth when she smile. Atter she married pappy, she still carried her pretty baskets to Eufaula to 1~ei1. ‚ Sometime she walk all de way dere and back, twenty fo‘ miles. I been libin‘ here in Eufaula fifty year or mo‘ white fo‘ks, an~ I owns my lIttle cabin an‘ de Ian‘ around it. T‘an‘t much, but Its enough to keep ~e a-‘goin‘, dis wid de little sto‘ I owns.“


~ash. Copy, 5/14/37.

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