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Frcm what I know I think my parents was industries. Papa was a shoemaker. He worked on Sunday to make extra money ‘to buy things outside of what his master give them for his family. Now I can remember that much. My papa was a bright color like I am but not near as light as mama. He had a shop when I was little but he wasn‘t ‘lowed to keep it open on &uiday. I heard him tell about working on Sundays during slavery and how much he made sometimes.
He tanned his own leather.		~ .

	~1 went to Mississippi and married. Folks got grown earlier than they do now and I married when I ~a a you.ng girl ‘bout seventeen. We come to Arkansas. I sewed for white and colored. I cooked some. I taught school in the public 8chools0 I taught opportunity school two years. I had a class at the church in day and at the schoolhouse at night. I had two
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“J•ohn Hays was mama ‚ s owner in Tenne esee .~