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meals. The children mostly were raised on pot liquor. While the old folk were working the larger young u~ns mongst the cb~ild.ren would. take care of
the little ones.	..

	“Their masters never forced any breeding. I have heard of that happenin~ in other places but I never heard them speak of it in connection with our master.

	“When the master came back from the war, they told the slaves they were free. After slavery my people stayed on and worked on the old. plantation. They didn‘t get much. Something like fifty cents a day and one meal. My folks did.n‘t work on shares.

	“Back there in North Carolina times got tight and it seemed that there wa8n‘t much doing. Agents came from Arkansas trying to get laborers. So abotit seven or eight families of ~s emigrated from North Carolina. Thatils how my folks got here.

	“The Ku. Klux were bad. in North Carolina too. My people didn‘t have any ti‘ou~ble with them in Arkansas, thoagh. They weren‘t bothered so much In 1~orth Carolina becau.se of their owners. But they would come around and see them. They carne at night. ~‘e came to Arkansas in the winter of 1897,

	nI went to public school after the war, in North Carolina. I didn‘t get any ftirther than the eighth grade. My father and mother didn‘t get any schooling till after the war. They could reaa a little but they picked it up themselves during slavery. I suppose their Master‘s children learned it
to them.	-

	“My father never did see any army service. I bave heard him speak of seeing soldiers come through though. They looted the place and took every~ thing they wanted and could carry.

	“When I first come to this state, I settled in Drew County and farmed. I fanned for three years. ~ring the time I was there, I got down sick