#673
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	Intervleier	Misa Ire~ia Robertson	~
	Person interviowed_	PranicCannon
~R.P.D. ‚ two miles, Pa].ečtlne ‚ Lrkanaaa
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	“I was born three miles weat of Starkville ‚ Mississippi on a pretty

tolerable large fax~n. My iolks was bought from a speculator drove cous by.

They come from Sanders in South Ca‘llna. Master Charlie Cannon bought a whole drove of ua, both my grandparents ou both sides. Ee had five farms, big 81ze farina. Saturday was ration day.

	“Our master built us a church in our cjuartera and sont his preacher to preach to uPs. He was a white preacher. Said he wanted his slaves to be

christians.

WI never went to school in. my lite. I was taught by the fireside to be

obedient and not steal.

	Rie et outer trays hewed out of loge. Three ot us would eat together.

We had wooden 8~OOfl3 the boys made whittlix~g about in cold rainy weather.

We all had gourds to drink outer. When. we had milk we‘ d get on our knees
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and turn up the tray, same way wid pot-liquor. They give the grown up the

meat and us pot..li~uor.

	~Pa was a blacksmith. He got a little work from other plantations. The third year ot the surrender he bought us a cow. The master was dead. He never went to war. He went in the black jack thickets. His eons wasn‘t old. enough to go to war. Pa seemed to like oie master. The overseer was white looking like the master but I don‘t know 1f he was white ~n or nigger. 01e master wouldn‘t let him whoop much as he pleased. Master held him oft on whooping.