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	Interviewer	Miss Irene Robertaon

Person	Interviewed     ~F8i~nis Alexander Helena, Arkansas

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	ei was an orphant child. My mothsr-in..law told me during slavery she was a field hand. One day the overseer was going to whoop one of the w~en ‘bout sompin or other and all the womexi started with the hoàs to him and run him clear out of the field. They would. killed him if he hadn‘t got out of the way. She said the master hadn‘t pat a oversèer over them for a long tiEle • Some of ‚ em wou.ld.n‘ t do their part and he put one of the n~en on the place over the wcmen• He was a colored foreman. The women worked together and the men worked together In different fields. ~My mother~in..law was named Alice Drummond0 She said they would cut the hoecakes in half and put that in your pan, then pour the beef stew on top. She said on Christmas day they had hot biscuita. They give them flour and thinga to i~ke biscuit at hc~ on Sundays. When they got through eating they take their plate and say, t Thank God for what I rece ivd‘ She said they had plenty milk. The churne was up high..~-five gallon churns. Soma cburna was cedar wood. The children would churn standing on a little stool. It would take two to churn. They would change about and one brushed away the flies. She 1ived~ dosé to Meridian and Canton.

	“My mother talked the bright side to her children. ~ie was born in Tennessee. She had two older sisters sold from her. She never seen them no more. They was took to I&issouri. Mother was never sold. She was real bright color. She died when I was ~ real little.