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	*Georg. OOT~U is my name ‚ and I waa born in Conway County aon~iheres In Deoemb•r 1886-—I guess it was about de aevetiteenth of December. We

lived there till 1911, when I come to Pope County. Both my pare~te iiae slaves on de plantation of a Mr. Coven near Charleston, South Carolina. 1~t ‚ a where we got our name . Folks cciv to Arkansas after dey was freed. No sir, I am ‚ t edioated..-~never had de chance. Parente been dead a good many years.

	‘Tas euh, my folks used to talk a heap and tell ‚- lots of tales of

.	slavery days, and how d~ patrollere used to whip em ehen day wanted to go sons place and dn‘ t have de demit to go. Yas euh, dey had to have a demit to go any place outside work hours. ~y whipped my mother and father both sometimes ‚ and dey an‘s was afraid ot dem patrollers. Used to say, ‘If you don‘t watch out de patrollers‘ll git yo~t.‘ ~y‘d catch de slaves and tie em up to a tree or a poe‘ and whip em wid ~xg~ whips and rawhidss.

	“Some of de slaves was promised land and other thiiigs when dey was freed, and some sn‘ t promised nothin‘ • Some got land and a span of na~les ‚ and some didn‘ t get in‘ • No ~h, my daddy ‘ t fana none at tiret after he was freed because he didn‘t have no ~ney to buy land, ~t he done odd jobs here and there till he c~e to Arkansas seven or eight years after the War.