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~ \.~T	Person interviewed	.  Mike Genöa ~ ~  ~
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—	— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — “i: heard folke talk is ai]. I know bout slavery. I wac

born in Arkanea$. My mother wac Sara Jane Whitley. My father wac _~ ~ Genes. My mother came here from Tennes300 wid Henderaon Sandere. I waa raleed on the Danoan place. My mother raised ue a heap like old timea. I got fire tongs now she had.

She made aeli eakee and we had plenty milk. I got her old pot hooica too. She cooked cracklin‘ bread in the winter and. blaek walnut bread the ~ aame way. We made palinga and boarda for the houeee and barna. Jee gradually we gittin‘ away from all that. Timea is changing co faat.

	“I heard ‚ em aay in alavery they got ‚ em up fore day and they worked all day. Some dIn‘ t have much elothea • I can remember three me~i twisting plow linee. They made plow linee.

	s ~1 vote 1f I have a chance, but I really don‘ t care bout it • I t ~ know how to keep up to vote like it ought to be.

	“The young generation may change but if they don‘t they‘ air a knock out • They do jee anyway and everyvray. They t t eave and eain‘t cave lt look like, way we got thinge now. Polka don‘t x‘alee nothin‘ and have to buy co mach ].lvin‘ ie hard. Folka all dom fine long ai the cotton la to pick. Thie la two reconetruetione I been through. Folke got ueed to work