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	Interviewer	Pernella Anderson

Person	Interviewed    Fannie ClelflOfl8
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	ttl wae born down in Farrnerville, Loui$iana in the year of 1860. Now my nia lived with $orne white people, but now the name of the people I do not know. You see, child, I am old and I can‘t recollect so good. I didn‘t know my pa cause my ma quit him when I wae little. ~y ma said she worked hard In the field like a black stepchild. My ma had nine chilluns and I was the oldest of the nine. She said her old miss wouldnTt let her come to the house to nurse me, so she would slip up under the house and crawl through a hole in the floor. She took and pulled a plank up so she could slip through.

	“I would drink any kind of water that I‘ saw if I wanted a

drink. If the white folks poured out wash water and I wanted a drink that would do me. It just made nie fat and healthy. Most we played was tussling, and couldn‘t no boy throw me. Nobody tried to whip me cause they couldn‘t.

	flV~Te always cooked on fireplaces and our cake was always

molasses cakes • At Christmas time we got candy and apples ‚ but these oranges andbananas and stuff like that wasn‘t out then. Bananas and oranges just been out a few years. And sugar -~ we did not know about that. We always used sugar from molasses. don‘t think sugar been in session long. If it had I did not get

it.