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	Interviewer~	Mrs. Bernice Bowden
	Person interviewed	N1y Gray
- 821 Z~. 18th Avenue ‚ Pine Bluff, Arkansas
	A€e~  84	Occupation	Does a little QUj1tin~






	“Yes raa‘m, I was sold fran Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Yenkins bought my mother when I was a little girl walkin‘ and talkin ‚ ~ Put me up on the block and sold me too. I was bout three years old.

	“Dr. Jenkins was rni~hty good to his hands. Say he was goin‘ to raise his little darkies up back of his chair. He thought lots of his colored

folks.

	“I member seem‘ the Rebels ridin‘ horses, three double, down the road time of the war. I used to run oft from rnwna to the county band —~ right where the roundhouse is now. Mama used to have to come after me. You know I wasn‘t no baby when I shed all my teeth dunn‘ slavery days.

	“Yankee soldiers? Oh Lord seed em by fifties and hundreds. Used to pint the ~un at me jest to hear rae holler and cry. I was scared of em. They come in and went in Dr. Jenkins‘ dairy and got what they wanted, And every morning they ‚ d blow that bu~gle ‚ bugle as long as a broom handle. Heard em blow ‚ Glory, ~lory Hallelujah‘ . I liked t o hear em blow lt.

	“Yankees marched all up and down the river road. They‘d eat them navy beans. I used to see where they throwed em in the fence corner. Saw so many I don‘t like em now, They called em navy beans and I called era soldier beans.

	“I niexnber it well. I‘m a person can remember. Heap a folks tel). what other folks see but I tell what I see. Don‘t tell what nobody told me and what I heard.