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	Thterviewer	Mra.Bernice Bowden
	PersOn interviewed	~J~t1eton Daxidrldp
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	“I was told I was born 1x~ ‘57 In iast Carroll ParL°~h, Louisiana.

	‘Oh, I can remember before the Jar broke out • Yea ma‘ am, I had good ownera. Old master and mistresa was named James Railey and Matilda Railey. I called her mistress.

	“I remember one time my f‘ather carried nie to Natchez on Christmas to spend with his people. His parents were servants on a plantation near Natchez.

	*1 remember two shows I saw. They was the Daniel Rice shows. They was animal shows but they had em on a boat, kind of a flatboat. We didn‘t have trains and things like that ~ traveled on the big waters.

	$1 remember when we refugeed to Texas in ‘63. They raised tobacco there~

	“We got free in ‚ 65 and the Governor or somebody ordered all the owners to take all the folks back that wanted. to go.

	“All the young folks, they had them in Tyler, Texa8 makin‘ bullets. My 1~ather had the care of about fifty youngsters inakin‘ bullets.

	“Old master had two plantations in Louisiana and three in Misaissippi. He was a large slaveholder.

	~hen we got back to i~uisiana from Texas, ever‘thing was the a~ except where the levees had been cut and overflowed the land..

	“Old master died berore the War broke out and my mistress died in ‘6‘?.