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—	— ~ — — — — — \‘~ ~I was ten year old when the Civil War come on. I was born

Tallapooay County, Alabama. I belong to 3‘im Gray. I recollect th.

paddyrollere. I don‘t recollect the ~x Klux Klan. Ther was twelve boys and two girle in our family in tim. I waa among the older set.

	“Bout all I remembers bout slavery was how hard the hande had to work. We aho did hat to work! When we wasn‘t denn new ground end rollin pine log. an burnin bruah we was er buildin tencse and ahuokin an ahellin corn. Women you don‘t know nufin boat work! W. der new groun all day den burn brush and pile logs at nite. We build fences all day and kill hog. and shuck corn dat night. No use to say word bout bein tird. Never h~?d nobody complainin. They went right on singin or whielin~, Started out plowin and drappin corn then plentin~ cotton. Choppir~ time co~ on then pullin‘ fodder and 1eyin~ by time be

on.	Be bout big nisetin time and bout to that er was over everybody was dun in the cotton field till dun cold weather, I remembers how they sho did work.

	‚-‚ “Both my parents was field hands. They stayed on two years after the war was over. 11m ~ay raised red hogs and red corn, whooper— will peas. He kept a whole heap of goats and a flock of shssp.