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	Interviewer ~	~	uj~g tie~. Robertson	.

P]?80fl	interviewed    Katherine Ci~y1 Forrest City,~Arkaiisas

Age  69


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*1 was born in West Point, Mississippi. My fo1ka~ owners was Master

Harris end Liddie Harris. My parent ‚ s name was Sely Sikes. She was mother of seven ch11drex~. Papa was name Owen Sikea. He never was whooped. They

had. different o~nera. Both my grandparents was dead on both sides0 I never

seen them.

eM~In. said her owners waan‘ t good. lier riding boss pu~t a scar on her

back she took to her grave. It was deep and a foot long. He wanted~ to

whoop her naked. He had the colored men hold her and he whooped her. She run off and when her owner come hone she cctne to him at his house and told him all about it. She had been in the woods about a week she reokon. She had a baby she had left. The old mistras done had it brought to her. She was nursing it. She had a ateking baby of her oin. She kept that baby.

Mama said her breast ~ was way out and the doctor had to oon~ wait on her; it nearly rtiined.

	“Msma said her master was so u~d he cursed the overseer, paid him, and give him ten minutes to leave his plao. He left in a hurry. That was her very first baby. She was raising a family, so they put her a nurse at the house. She had been ploughing. She had big tine children. They was proud or them. She raised a big family. She topk care of all her and Misa

~	kiddie‘s babies and washed their hippins. Never no soap went on them she

said reason she had that to do • Another w~n cooked and another ~n*n waehed~