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Person Interviewed  ~	Sarah Anderson
~ 3815 1. Second Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
~	78?





	*1 don‘t know when I was born. When the Civil War ended, I vas bout four or five years old.

	“I jea ‚ remember when the pople coma backs—the soldiers—when th• War ended. We chillun ran under the houes. That was the Yankees.

	“I was born in Blbb County, Georgia. That ‚ ~ where I was bred and born.

	“I been in Arkansas ever since I was tourten. That was shortly after the Civil War, I reckon. We come here ihen they was emigratin‘ to Arkansas. I‘m tellin‘ you the truth, I been here a long t1z~.

	. *1 member when the soldiers wnt by and we ohillun run under the houas. It was the Yankee cavalry, and they made so much noise. I~t‘a what the old folks told us. I member dat we nm under the house andY called ourasif hidlu‘.

	UMY master was Madison Newsoias and. my misais was Sarah Newao~, N~ned after her? Must a done it. ~ and I~r chillun was out wallowin‘ in the dirt when the Yankees c~ by. Sometimes I stayed in the house with my ihite folks all night.

“My mother and father say they was weU. treated. That‘s what th•y say. ROld folks didn‘t low us chillun round when they was talkin‘ bout

their business, no ma‘~.

ewe stayed with old master a good while after treedom--till they

commenced emigratin‘ train Georgia to Arkansas. Tea ma ‚ am3
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