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#685
	Interviewer_	Misa IreneRobsrtaon

Person interviewedLeura ~ Grove~ Arkansas Receives mail at Clarendon, Arkansas
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	“My mama was nan~d Lloise Rogers, She was born in Missouri. She was sold and brou~ght to three or four miles from Brownsville ‚ Tennessee • Alex Rogers bought her and my papa. ~e had been a house girl and well cared tore She never got in contact wid her tolks no more after she was sold. She was a dark woman. Papa was a ginger cake colored man. Mama talked like Alex Rogers had four or five hundred acres ot land and. lots of niggera to work it, ~ie said he had a cotton factory at Broinaville,

	“Mistress Barbara Ann was his wife, They had two boys and three girls. One boy George went plumb crazy and outlived ‘em all, The other boy died e~rly. Alex Rogers got my papa in Richmond, Virginia. He was took outer a gang. We had a big family. I have eight sisters and o~ne brother,

	~Pa say they strop ~ em down at the carriage house and give ‚ em ti~e hundred lashe s. • He say they have salt and black pepper mixed up in er old bucket and put lt all on flesh cut up with a rag tied on a at ick (r&p).

Alex Rogers had a nigger to put it on the place they whooped, The Lord puts up wid such wrong doings and den he comes and rectifies it. He does that very way.

	*Pa say they started to whoop him at the gin house. Ha was a sorter

favorite. He out up about it. That didn‘t raake no difference ‘bout it,

somehow they scared him up but he didn‘ t git whooped thater tim.

7_•‘_‘_____ *They fed good on Alex Rogers‘ place. Theytd buy a barrel of coffee, a barrel molasses, a barrel sugar. Sotae great big barrels.