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	Person Interviewed	Tes Gill RJ.D. Marvsll Irkaneas
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~	* ~ ~ ~ ~ — ~ — ~ — ~ — ~ ~ — - ~ ~ — ~ ~ ~ ~ — ~ — — ~ — ~ — ‘Lrnole J~in‘ Gill, an ex.~slav. eightya..ix years or ags, owns a nia. two

hundred acre f.m five miles north ot ~rv.li where h. has lived ror ths

past thirty~riv. years. ‘Uncle JIR‘ is an •xcsllent citizsn, proepsrous end

~	conservative end highly reapseted by both white end colored. Thia is aolaeesa ineking t1 in the South sad I found ‘Uncle lin“ i~sily engaged in enpsrint.nding the procese of cooking the extracted juic. froii a ler~ q~uentity of sorguiu~ cens. ~s fi11.r typs of hor...pow.r mill in ihish the cane is crushed was in full op.ration, a roaring rirs irai blazing in the crudely constructed furnace beneath the long pen that contained the furiously fo~1ng, boiling juice end that ‘Uncle Zin‘ inforid - was ‘nigh ‘bout done‘ and ready to drain off into th• imge blask pot that stood by ths side of the furnace, The pirpoes or ~ visit was .xplainsd end ‘U~cls J~i~‘ leaving the molasses neking to scie younger Megro accompanied ~ to the shade of a lar~ oak tree that stood neer‘~by an~d told ~ the following story:

	.	“My ois ears, he was n~ To~ Ihit. and ay young asre ihat slai~sd ~ he was n~s J~eff. Toung aera en‘ was just ‚ bout eei s. Us plsy.d together frcmt ti~ I tust ricoolect till us Left de ois hcs~ place bask in 4~labe~a and lit out for ovsr hers in Arkansas.

	‘Ols mars, he. om,..d a heap of eiggsrs bask dsrs iher. us all lived on de big place 1~t de ian‘ ‚ it was gittin‘ poor an‘ red end mought near woie out;

a.	oie pars, h. ‚ quired a big lot of lan‘ h.~ in Arkansas in Phillips County~