#666
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	Interviewer

	Person interviewed

	Age  8?


~	.~ — ~ ~ ~ — ~ — — — ~ — ~ — — “I was born in Virginia, Dr. 3~enkins bought my mother from a man nan~d

Norman. Brought us here on the boat • I know I was walkin‘ and talkin‘ . I don‘ t rem~nber about the trip, but I ren~mber they said they had to keep me out from fallin‘ in the river. I was too playified to remember anything about it.

	“Thxrin‘ the War I was a girl six or seven years old. Big enough to fluas my mother‘ s next chile ‚ and she was walkin‘ and talkin‘ ‚ fore surrender.

	“My mother was puahin‘ a hundred ehen she died. I was her oldest chile. Sold with her. .

	~Dr. Tenkins had three women and all of ‘em had girls. Raised up in the house. Dr. Jenkins said, ‘Doggone it, I want my darkies right back of my chair.‘ He never did ‘aise his colored tolka. He waa a ‘cepted (exceptional) man~—so different. I never saw the inside of the quartera,

	~Dr. Ynk‘ house waan‘ t tar from the river. You could hear the boats goin‘ up and down all night.

	nI was scared of the Yankees ‘cause they always p‘inted a ~tn at me to 86~ me run. They‘d come in the yard and take anything they wanted, too.

	“After surrender mama went and cooked for a ~n named Bardin,

	“Hardest time I ever had was when I got groin. and had to take care of my mother and sister. Worked in the field.

	“I was married out from behind a plow. Never farmed no ~
Ifra. Bernice Bowden

	-	NeslyGrey 818 E. Fifteenth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas