2.	12



ihen we were hait way through with our a~ng ie discovered that the paasenger~ from the stage coach had stopped to listen. We were so frightened at our ~dience that we both ran. But we were coaxed to coI~ back for a dime and sing our song over. I remember that Miss ~annie used a big leaf tor a booke

	“I had always been told from the time I was a small child that I was a. Ne~o of African stock. That it was x~.o disgrace to be a Negro and had it not been for the white folks who brought us over here fr~ Africa as 8laves, we would never have been here and would have been niioh better off.

	“We colored folks were not allowed to be taught to read or write. It was against the laW. My master‘s folks a1~ays treated me well. I had good clothes. Sometimes I was whipped for things I should not have done just as the white children were,

	“When a young girl was married her parents would always give her a slave. I was given by my master to his daughter, ILias Elizabeth, who married Mr. Blakely. I was just five years old. She moved into a new hoxi~ at Fayetteville and I was taken ~along but she soon sent me back hone to my master telling him that I was too little and not enough help to her, So I went back to the Parks home and stayed until I was over seven years old. ~*y master made a bill of sale tor me to his daughter, in order to keep account of all settlements, so when he died and the estate settled each child would know hew he stood~
*.~ ~t~eWt ~ be ~	1~bi~!~~4L ~



end til.d in Probate Court in the clerk‘s offioe in Washin~on County.
	•—~_i--~—	_~	~ ~	-  ---—-—-—-—--------—-	—  __~._ _______._____-.  -  —---  -  ~_—-.--•—_J-~__----*	—	-~-------- u  ~-