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	Person Interviewed	~	~	R. B. Ànderaox~  ~	~
- - Route 4, Box 68~ (new? G1?alIitS )
	~ 7Q~_~	Little Rock, Arkansas


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	“I was born in Little Rock along about Seventeenth and Arch Streets. There was a big plantation there then. Dr. Wright owned the plantation. He owned my mother and tather, My father and mother told me that I was born in 1862. They didn‘t know the date exactly, so I put it the last day in the year and call it December ~O, 1862.

	“My father‘s name was William Anderson. He didn‘t ~o to the War because he was blind. He was ignorant too. He was colored. He was a pretty good old i~n when he died,

	“My mother‘s name was Minerva Anderson, She was three—fourths Thdian, hair way down to her waist. I was in Hot Springs blacking boots when my mother died, I was only abou~t . ei ght or ten years old thén, I always regretted I wasn‘t able to do anything ror my mother before she died. I don‘t know to ~hat tribe her people be1on~ed.

	“Dr. Wright was awf~u1 good to his slaves,

	nI don‘t know just how freethin cane to my folks. I never heard my tather say. They were set free ‚ I know. They were set tree when the War ended. They never bought their freedom.

	“le lived on Tenth and near to Center in a one-room log house. That is the earliest thing I remember, When they moved from there, my father had accumulated enough to buy a home. He bought it at Seventh and Broadway. He paid cash for iti.~~five hundred and fifty dollars,