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	Intex~v1ewei‘•,~	  Mj.sLr.ne Bobertssa        ~	~
	Perioa int,rvieisd	~ M~ryßaino.~ Brinkley 4zkansa. :	~ —
	~ 1872 ~


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	WI wai born In Courtlend, flabe~. Mother was twelve years old at the first of the iurrender~

	“Grandfather was a South Caro1ii~1aii. laster Barri. bought him, two more ‚ his brothera and two sisters and his mother at one t1n~ • He wa~ real African. Grandma on mother‘ ~ ~ ~ dark Indien. ~ie heil white hair nearly straight. I have aune of it now. Mother wea lighter. That is ithere I geti my light color.

“X~ater Harris sold mother and grandma. Mother said ~he wai tat, tall
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strong lookin€ girl. Master Barria let a Negro trader have grandma, mother

an~d her three brothera. They left grandpa. Maiter Earn. told the nigger traders not divide grandma from her children. Ho didn‘t believe in that.

He was letting them go from their father. That mai .uœ~i iorrow for them to bear. That iraa in Alabama they was auctioned off. Master Harris livd in Georgia. The auctioneerer held mother‘ i ax~.a up, turned her all around, made her kick, run, jump about to aee hom nimble and quick she was. K. aelci this old w~an can cook. ~e has ben a good worker in th. rteld.

Shs‘ e a good cook. They sold ber off cheap. Mother brought a big prie..

They caught on to that. The man nor ~man wasn‘t good to theme I forget their nunei ihat bou~it them. The nigger tradrs run her three brothers on to X.t..ia.ippi. The youngest one died in Xiaaia.ippi. They never seen the other two or heard of them till after frs.dem., They .wnt back to Georgia. All of them wsnt back to their old haie placs.