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	Interviewer	ILias Irene Robartaon
	Person interviOwed	Lucindy A1118on~ Marked Trse, Lrkanaaa
		  With children. at Blicoe, Arkaiiiaa
	Age~  61



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	“Ma was a slave in Arkansas. She said she helped grade a hill and help pile up a road between Wicksburg and Wyime • They uldii‘ t pu~t the road over the hill, so they put all the slaves about to grade it down. They don‘t use the road but it‘s still there to 8how for itself.

	“She was a tall rawbony woman. Ma was a Hillis and pa ‚ s name was Adam Hulls. He learned to trap in slavery and after freedoen he followed that for a living. Ma was a sure ‘nough field hand. Mama had three sets ot children. I don‘t know how many she did have in all. I had eleven my own self. Grandma wa~ named Tempy and I heard thora tell about when she was sold. Sheand mama went together. They used to whoop the slaves when they didn‘t work up pearL

	“When the ‚ Old War‘ cc~ on and the Yankees come they took everything and the black men folks too. They come by right often, They would drive up at mealtiiz~ and ccme in and rake up every blessed thing was cooked. Have to go work scrape. about and find something else to eato :~at they keér bout you. being white or black? Thing they was after was filling theirsolves up. They done white folks worse than that. They burned their cribs and fences up and their houses too about if they got mad. Things didn‘t suit them. If they wanted a colored man to go in camp with them and he didn‘t go, they would shoot you down like a dog. Ma told about acme folks she knowd got shot in the yard of his own quartera.