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The overseer eouldn‘ t whip my old mother ~tyhow because she was a kind of‘ bully and she would git baok in a corner with a hoe and dare him in. Ai4 he WOUldU‘t go in neither.

	“My grandmother had three or four eons. One was nana Noie Orump, another waa naiied Miles and another was named Henry and another 11m. She had two or three more but I can‘ t think of them. They died before I was old enough to know anything. Then she had two or three daughters. One waa named Lottie • She had another one btit I can‘ t think of her name. I was so little. All of them are dead now. MAll of my people are dead but me. They are trying to find a sister of‘ mine ‚ but I airi‘ t found her yet. She oughter be down here by Forrest City 5on~ierea~ ~Lt there ain‘t nobody here that I know about but me . SAnd the way they‘ re carryin‘ them now I am‘ t goin‘ to be here long, All ot them people you hear me talk about, they‘re eupposed to be dead.

	*1 was born in 1858. At least the old ~an told me that. I mean my father of couree. The tiret thing I knowed anything about waa picking cotton. I was a little bitty old fellow with a little sack ha~gth‘ at my aide. I was pickin‘ be8ide my mother. They would grab us sometimes when we didn‘t pick right. Shake us and pill our ears.

	RI didn‘ t know anything about sellin‘ and buying. I never was sold.

	*Th. next thing I remember was being told I was free. My daddy said old mars told them they were free. I didn‘t hear him tOll it myself. They cc~

‘round on a Monday morning and told papa and the rest that they were free as he was and that they could go it they wanted to or they could stay, ‚ cause they were tree as he. was and didn‘ t have no master no more ‚ didn‘ t have no

one to domineer over them no more.

	wRight after freedom, my folks worked on old man J‘im Burdyne ‚ s tarm. That is the first place I remember after freedom. lather taken a little dead.ning.