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Person interviewed	E1lenC,ra~in
	-	8l~ Arch Street, Littli Rock, Arkansas Age ~ Around8O or more
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	“I was born on. the tenth ot March in scme year, I don‘ t know what one. I don‘t know whether it was in the Civil War or before the Civil War. I

•tor~et lt. I think that I wa~ born. in Vlckaburg, Mississippi; I‘m not 8~re,
but I think it was.	       ~
    “My mother was a great shouter.	One night betore I was born, ~he was

at a meeting, and she said, ‚ Well ‚ ‘ 11 have to go in, I reel something.‘ She said I was walkin‘ about in there. And when she went in, I was born that same night.

“My mother was a great christian woman. She raised us

to be in at sundown. If you didn‘t bring it in at sundown, whip you within an inch or your life.

	“She didn‘t work in the field. She worked at a loom. She long and so often that once she went to sleep at the loom. Her boy saw her and told his mother. His mother told him to take a wear her out. He took a stick and went out to beat her awake. mother till she woke up. When she woke up, she took a pole out and beat him nearly to death with it. He hollered, ‘Don‘t beat and I won‘t let ‘em whip you.‘

“She said, ‘I‘m goin‘ to kill you.

and then you come out here to beat me •‚

able to walk.
right. We had she‘d whip~you,--.~
worked so master‘ s whip and He beat my of the loom me no more,
The8e black titties sucked you, And when she left him, he wasn‘t