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	~	Interviewer	Bernice Bowden
	Person Interviewed	~
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	“1 member when they freed the people.

III	was.born in Bedie Kellog‘s yard and I know she said,

‘Zenie, I hate to give you up, I‘d like to keep you.‘ But my mother said, ‘No, ma‘am, I can‘t give Zenie up. t

	“We still stayed there on the place and I was settled and growed up when I left there.

	“I t1~ old. I feels my age too . ~ I may not look old but I feels it.

	“Yes ma‘e.ni, I member when they carried us to church under bresh arbors. Old folks had rags on their hair. Yes‘m, I been
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	“My father was a Missionary Baptist preacher and he was a

preacher. Didn‘t know tAt from ~B‘ but.he was a preacher. Ever-‘ body knowed .Iake Alsbrooks. He preached all over that country of North Carolina. They‘d be as many white folks as colored. They‘d give himmoney and he never called for a collection in his life. Why one Sunday they give him~sixty-five dollars to help
buy a horse.	~ .

	“Fore I leftthe old county, I member the boss xnan,Heriry

~2!!ab come by and tell my mother, turn gwine to town now, have my dinner ready when I come back - kill a chicken.‘ She was one.

of~the cooks. Used to have us chillun pick dewberries and black~ berries and bring em to the house.
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