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	Interviewer	Miss Lrene Robertson

Person	Interviewed     D1anaA1exande~ Brink1e~ Arkansas  ~

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	“I was born in Mississippi close to Bihalia. Our owner was ~1yer8 (?) Bogan. He had a wife and children. Mama wa~ a field woman. Her name was Sarah Bo~an and papa‘ s name was Hubbard Bogan.

	“I heard them talk about setting the pot at the doors and having 8inging and prayer services, They all sung and preyed around the room. I forgot all the things they talked about. My parents lived on the same place after freedxn a long time. They said he was good to them.

	“Dr. Bo~an in Forrest City, Arkansas always said I was his brother‘s child. He w~is dead years ago, so I didn‘t haire no other way of knowing.

~	“The only thing I can recollect about the War was once my mistress took nie and her own little ~ir1 upstairs in a kind of Qeiling room (attic), They had their ham meat and jewelry locked up in there and other fine stuff. She told•u8 to sit down and not move, not even grunt. Me and Fannie had to be locked up 80 long. It was dark, We both ~îent to sleep but we was afraid to stir. The Yankees come then but I didn‘t get to see them0 I dithi‘t want to be took away by ‘era. I was big enough to know that. I heard ‘em say we was near ‚ bout eat out at the closing of the War. I thought it muster been the Yankees from what they was talking about, eating us out,

	“I been washing and ironing and still doing it. All my lire I been doing that ‘ceptin‘ when I worked in the field.