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	Interviewer	Miss Irene Robe~j~on ~

Person	Interviewed   Isaac Crawford
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Age 75~~••
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	‘TI was born the first year of the Civil War, I was born and raised and married in Holmes County, 1~Iississippi. My parents wa~ named Harrlett and James Crawford. They belong to a widow woman, Miss Saille Crawford. ~ She had a girl named Bettie and three sons named Sam, Mack, Gus. Mack and Gus was heavy drixikers. Moster Sain would drink but he wasntt 80 bad. They wasn‘t mean to the Negroes on the plaoe~ They had eight or nine families scattered around over the ir land.
	t, I farine d ti 11 I was e ighte en then they made me foreman over

the hands on the place I stayed till after I married.

	ft I know Sam was in the war and c orne honie cripple • He was in the war five years • He couldn ‚ t get home from the war • I‘ drove his hack and toted him to it. I toted him in the house. He said he never rode in the war; he always had to walk and tote his baggage. His feet got frost bit and raw. They never got well. He lived. They lived close to Goodman, Mississippi.
III	heard my mother sa~ she was mixed with Creole Indian. Η

She was some French. My father was pure African. Mow what am I?

	“01e mistress wasn‘t mean to none of Us. She wrung my ears and talked to me. I minded her pretty good.

	“The children set on the steps to eat and about under the trees. Some folks kept their children looking good. Some let em go. They fed em - set a big pot and dip em out greens. Give em