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	Interviewer	Mrs • Bernice Bowdan
	Per8on interviewed	Mar~Crosby	~
1216 Oak Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
	Me	76






	“Good morning. I don‘t know anybody ‘rQ~fld here that Was born in 8laVery times ‘copt me. I don‘t know exactly when I was born in Georgia but I can remember my mama said her old master, Mat Fiel4s, sent my father and all the other irien folks to Arkansas the second year of the war. After the war, I remember there was a colored man named Mose corne from Mississippi to Georgia and told the colored folks they could 8hake money off the trees in Mis8issippi. Of course they was just ignorant as cattle and they believed him. I know I thought what a good time I would have. I can remember seeing old master crying cause his colored folks all leaving, but Mose‘~emigrated all of us to Mississippi.

	“He kept emigrating folks over there till he like to got killed. The white people give . him a ~ stayaway and told him not to come back, but he sure did get some colored folks out of Georgia.

	“I ‘member they said the war was to free the niggers. They called it the Civil War. I never did know why they called it that. I can‘t ‘member things like I used to.

	“My mother‘s old master‘s ~randdau~hter, Miss Anne, had a baby that was six months old when I was born and rnaum said old master corne in an tell Miss Ann, ‘I‘ve got a new little nigger