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Name of‘ Interviewer	Perr~e1Ia Anderson
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	‚ Ah wu~ a young nigger bout nine or ten years oie when de slaves wul freed. Ah got freed in Texas. We went ttth Texas on a steamboat an dey wuz a lot uv people on de steamboat. We sho ‘joyed dat trip. We went wid our mistress an moster. Dey wuz de Lides, Mistuh John Lide‘s parents. De LIdes run one uv de bigges‘ stores in Camden now, if ye knows dein dey is de saine Lides. One uv de boys wuz naned Blaokie Lid,, one John Lid., one named Hugh Lid.. Dem wuz granohiliun. Hannah tide, ~(innie Watts now, dey wuz de gi‘anchillun. Now let ~ see, one Miss wuz named E~a Lide. Dem sho wuz good . Oie mis s died when we wuz on ouh way t~h dis country. P~n ole moster been daid since way baok yondsh. But when we got tuh dis country we settled bout seven or eight mIles fuin Camden in Ouo~hita County. 01e inoster wuz nan~d Peter Lid.. We jes went tuh sohool nough tuh learn our A.B.C.‘. cause we had tuh work in de fiel. We carried our meat tuh defiel an cooked hot ash cake fuh dinnuh. We k.p‘ spare ribs and backbone all de year roun‘. We pickled de backbone an dem soareribs. We worked eveh day. Wednesday night wuz wash night. Dat‘s when de won~n would do de washin. We‘d go tuh de fiel way fo day.

	Back in dem days we had er log church. Ah went in nah shirt-tail till ah wuz six. Mii Lid• nude xnah tust pair uv britches. Ah uiembuhe one time ah went to Miss Lide‘s garden an stole watuh mellons. Ah put em in a
This inforn*tion given by	~1er Frazier
Place of Res idenoe	Ousohita County
Occupation
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AGE  75