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	‘lihy did your folks mov to Arkmneas?“

	*~.u, you eis ii heard thie was a good country and th.rs was a whit man ccms there to get a lot of niggere to farm for him down on the rimr and ws ccme with him. K• brrought a Lot ot feaili.. on a big boat call•d a flatboat. We were days and nighte floating down the riv•r.

we landsd at St. Charlea. I married in about two year. and haven‘ t ever lived anywhere else but Arkansas County and I~ve always been around good white folks. I‘d been oold and hungry a lot of tImes if it wasn‘t tor ec~ of dee~,leeeed white folkes‘ ohillen; dey ccmee to see me and bringe me things to eat and clothes too, s~etimee.“

	“How many tiase did you marry, Aunt Md.?“

	•~Tuat one ti~ and I just had four chilien, twine, two ti~e. One child died out ot each sit just ]eft me and Becky and Bob. Bob and Dover, his wife, couldn‘t get along but I think most of it‘s his fault, for Dover‘s just as good to ~ as she can be. My own child couldn‘t be better to me den she is.

	~I don‘t know, honey, but looks to mi like niggsrs ~e better off in dim days den they ars now. I ~iow dey was if dey had good white folks like ‚s did. ~y didn‘t have to worry about rnt, clothes, nor eumpin to sat. ]~t was there for them. 4.11 they had to do was work and do right. Course I guess our master might not of been so good and kind et we had been mean and lazy, but you know none of us ever got a whippin‘ in our lite.

	Eoney, ccme back to ses Aunt Add. scmetii~. I likes to talk to
you.“