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	Intervie~e3?	~ Irene Robertson

Person	interviewed Maria &itton c~1ernxoanta1 Devalls Bluf~, Ark, w~ep~Ab ~



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	I ‘ t know j es how old I I s. Ye s mum I show do rriember the war je3 lack as if it was yesterday. I via~ born in Lincoln County, Georgia. My old mistress was named Frances Sutton. She was a real old lady. Her husband ~as dead • ~he had two sons Abraham and George . One of them tried to get old missus to sell my ma jes before the war broke out. He waziter sell her cause she too old to bear children. Sell her an.d buy young woman raise mo children to 8e11. Pu~t em in the nigger drove and speculate on em. Young nigger, not stunted, ~8trong n!ade, they look at their wrist~s and ax~k1es and~ohestes, bout grown bring the owner fifteen hundred dollare. Yes rnam every cent of it. Two weeks after baby born see the mother earrin it crosà the field fur de old woman what kept all the children and she be ~oin~ ri~t on ïdd de hoe all day. When de sun come up the ni~ers all in the field and. woi~Idn when de ridin boss come wid de dogs playin long after hua. ir they didn‘t chop dat cotton joe right he have em tied up to a stake or a big saplih and beat hiri~ till de blood ru~n out the gashes. They come right back and take up whar they lof off work. Two chaps make a hand soon as dey get big nut to chop out arow. .- I

	Had plenty to eat; meat, corneake and molasses, peas and garden stuff. They didn‘t set out no variety fo the niggers. They had pewter bowls to eat outer and spoons. Eat out in the yard, at the cabins,