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and yell.d, ‘You‘re free as I am.‘ Old colored rOlka, Old aa I em now, that wae on stiok8, thrOwed them aticka away and ahout.d~

	‘RIgIIt aftei‘ freedom I atayed with that white woman I told you abc*it~ I‘ was with her about tour years, I worked fôr twelve dollars a month and

. my~ rood and clothes. Then I fi~ired that twelve doUars wasn‘t enough and

I went to work in the field. It was a mighty nice wo~n. Never hit in

her life. I never have been ihipped by a white woman. She was good to — till she died. • She ~ died after I had my second chi1d-~-~a girl child.

	~	“I have been living in this city fifteen years. I co~ from Chicot County when I come here ‚ We came to Arkansas in slavery t lines. They brought ins from Copiah County when I was six or eight years old. When Mrs.

Toliver married she came up here and brought my mother. My mother belonged to her son and she said, ‘Agnes (that was my mother‘s na~), will you follow ~ if I b~y your husband?‘ Her husband‘ s r~arrw was John ]3eaaley. She said,

	t Then her old mistress bought ~aaley and paid fifteen hundred dollars to get my mother to come with her. Then Peachy went to war and was shot because he come hoi~ of a • furlough and sta~red too löng. So when he went back they killed him. My mother nursed h1.~m when he was a baby. Old man Toliver said he didn‘t want none of us to be sold; so th~y wasn‘t none of ii~ sold. Maybe there would have been if slavery had lasted longer; L~it there wasn‘t,

	Mother really bslonge4 to Peachy, ~it when Peachy died, then she tel].
to her DhiStl‘988.	.	/


	“I have been a widow now for thirty yeara. I washed and ironed and plo~ and hoed—everything, Now I am ~ittin‘ so I am‘ t able to do nothin‘ and the Relief keeps me alive. I worked and took care of myself and my last husband and he died, and I ain‘t married since. I used to take a little boy