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Interviewer	Misa Irene Robertson
	Person interviewed	Charles Anderson~~ Heiena~4rkansas	-

	Age~ ~ ~ 77 ~ ~ not siir~


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	$1 was born in Bloxifield, Kentucky. My parents had the same owners. Mary and B~1gin Anderson was their xïames. They was owned by Isaac Stone, Davis Stone was their son, They belong to the Stones as far back as they could remember. Mama was darker than I am. My father was brighter than I am. He likely had a white father0 I never inquired. Mama had colored parents. Master Stone walked with a big crooked stick. He nor his son never went to war, Masters in that country never went. Two soldiers were drafted ott oür place. I saw the soldiers, plenty of them and plenty times. There never was no serious happenings.

~	“The Federal soldierS would come by, sleep in the yard, take our best horses and leave the broken down ones, Very little money was handled. I never seen much. Master Stone would give us money like he give money to Davis. They prized fine stock mostly. They needed money at wheat harvest time only. ViJaen a celebration or circ~ts come through he give us all twenty~. five or thirty cents and told us to go. There wasn‘t many slaves up there like down in this country, The owners from all I‘ve heard was crueler and $old them off oftener here.

	“Weaving was a thing the women prided In doing~being a fast weaver or a fine hand at weaving. They wove pretty coverlets for the beds. I see colored spreads now makes me think about my baby days in Kentucky.
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