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	Interviewr	satt Nolinney
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	Person interviewed	Jo. C1inton~ Route 2.~ (arv~e11~ Arkanaaa

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	~	~ ~ — ~ ~ ~ ~‚ ~ — — ~ ~ — — — — ~Unc1e ~ Clinton, an exJLlBßi88lppi BlaVe, lives on a ~aU tarin that h.

owns a few miles north of )iarvell, Arkanaaa. Hie wife haa been dead for a number of years and he has only on living child, lt indeed his boy, ~Tos~ who left home fifteen years ago for Chicago and tram whom no word has been received since, is still alive. Due to the infirmities of age ~Uncle Yos~ is unable to work and obtains his support from the Income received oft the 8I!Lell acreage he rents each year to the Negro family with whom he livee~ Seated in an old carie‘..bottomed chair MJncle 3~o&‘ was dozing in the wai~ min shine of an afternoon in early October as I passed through the gate leading into the small yard enclosing his cabin. Arousing him~e1t on my approach, the old Negro offered ~ a chair. I explained the ~*xrpose of my visit end this old man told me the following story:

	“I‘ se no~ past eighty-six year oie an‘ was borned in Panola County, Mississippi ‘bout three miles from Sardis, My oie niars *as Merk ~Th1ldress, en he ~ sure owned er heap of peoples, womens an‘ ~ns bofe ‚ en jus‘ gangs of chillun. I was real small when us lived in Panola County; howasœ~ever I riocolect it well when us all lef‘ dar and oie mars sold out his land end took us all to de delta where he had bought a big plantation ‘~ut two or three miles wide in Coehcma County not far from Friar Point. De very place dat my mars bought and dat us moved to is what dey call noi, de ‚ Clover Hili Plantationt • i:~ tust year dat us lived in de delta, us stayed on de plac