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	‘Grandma waa 1~ariah and grandpa wa~ Ned Harria, The two boys ccii~ back said the baby boy died at Selma, Alabama.

	“Grandpa talked about the War when I waa a child. He ~a1d he waa In the Battle of Corinth, Misaissippi. He said blood run. shoe mouth. deep in places. He didn‘t see how he ever got out alive. Grandma and mama said they was glad to get away from the oamps~ They looked to be shot several times. Colored folks is peace loving by nature, They don‘t love war, Grandpa said war was awful. My mother was named Lottie0

	“One reason mother saId she wanted to get away frcm their new master, he have a hole dug out with a hoe and put pregnant women on their stomach, The overseers beat their back with cowhide and them strapped down, She said ‘cause they didn‘t keep up work in the field or they did.n‘t want to work. She didn ‚ t know why. They did.n‘ t stay there very long. She didn‘ t want to go back them,

	“My lire has never been a hard one ~ I have always worked. Me and my husband run a cafe till he got drouned, Since then I have to work harder, I wash and iron, cook wherever some one comes Ibor ~‚ When I was a girl I was so much like mother-—a fast, strong hand iii the field, I always had work9

	“Mother said, ‘sat the beatis and greens, pot-~liquor and sweet milk, make you fat and lazy.‘ That was what they put in the children‘s wooden trays in slavery. They give the men and women meat and the children the broth and dumplings, plenty molasses. Sunday mother could cook at home in slavery if she‘d ‘tend to the baby too. All the hands on Harrises place et dinner with their family on &~nday. He was fair with his slaves.

	“For the life of n~ I can‘t see nothing wrong with the times, Only thing I see ‚ you an‘ t get credit t o run crops and folks all trying to shun farzrting~