Mary A, Poole, IViobile.
	~‚. ‚ ~ ~ ~	John I~iiorgan Smith,
	~ ~	Editor.
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	Jennie Bowen was surrounded by numerous little colored children~ ‘:q J carne upon her sitting on her front porch. She answered my questions

~îrough a mouth void of teeth and with a constant blInking of her brown a-/es \~rjth their muddy whites. Her little grand—child had to act to some extent as an interpreter, as her speech was at times most indistinct.

	“Yassum, I remembers lots of things dat happened back in de days o~‘ ~e Cibli War, ‚~ she said. „I remembers de place whar 1 lived. It were ~ prettiest house you ever seed. It were on a hi~h hill overlooking a $1:~.ll creek and de flowers ‘roun‘ in de yard was somp‘n to see, sho‘ ‘nuf f.

	11.1	17as ‘oawn in 1847 on Massa Fisher‘s and Mi~ti~ Fisher‘s plan-~ t~.tion near Camden, Alabama. Us slaves lived i‘fl a row of whitGrashed C~.T)1flS in de rear of de big house. We useta have a mean oherseer, white ~ an‘ all de time dere was slaves on our place a runnin‘ away.‘

	“I acted as nuss for massa‘s three chilluns, an‘ dey learnt me ~•~: re8d an‘ write. :;:y pappy was named Burl Fisher an‘ he corne f‘urn ~:L~~:inny when Cap‘rL Fisher brung him. Liy mammy was named Grace Fisher, c~r~‘ she was rroun~ de bi5~ house mos‘ of de time a weavin‘ an‘ a cardin‘ ~ for de slaves, who wo‘ calico siun in de summer a~‘ wool in de
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f	I~fl oie ni~ger rnan run~ ~ bell for us to ~‘1t up by, an‘ to call ~ ciel‘ han‘s in de evenin‘s. Atter 8urrender, dIs oie nigger stayed ~ ~ on de rlantation an‘ was a vrorkin‘ in de f±el‘s one day when de ~‘~er boy run:~ de bell for de niggers to corne in. All of ‘em carne

~ ~-~T~‘fl dilsole man an‘ later on dey ax him vthy he don‘t come when dey

~ ~ de bell. He answer: ‘Tain‘t no mo~ bell rin~‘in‘for dis nigger, kc~ze I is free.‘
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