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	Thtervlewer	Miss Irene Robertson
	Persbn Interviewed	       “Uappy 1~y“Green
		NeărBarton and Helena, Arkansas
	Age ~~~‘own durin~gtheC1vfl War





	NI don‘t know how old I is, young mistress. I was here ‘tore the Civil War, young mistress. 1 was born. in South, Alabama, young mistress. Well ‚ lt was nigh Montgomery, Alabama, young mistress • My in~r‘~ nen~ Emily Green. ~he had three children to my knowing. I don‘t know no tather. My owner was Boss William Green, young mistress. His wife was Miss Lizabuth, young mistress. They did have a big family, young mistress. To my kx~owing it was: Billy, charlie, ~nkum, Ida, Mary, Sally, ~in~my, ~.tddy. I never went to school a day in my lite, young mistress. When I come on big ‘nuft to work I had to help keer tor xn~ia and two girl sisters, young mistress.

	“Then I come to this state, Van Vicks and Bill Bowman Immigrated one hundred head of us. They landed s~ of us at Helena. Our family was landed at Phillips Bayou, young mistress.

“I was a coiboy, me and Ge orge • He was another black boy, young mie..

tress. We kept flies offen Boss William Green and Miss Lizabuth, young mistress. They took naps pi.trt nigh every day when it be the long days ( in sunmier ) ‚ young nil stre as. Mama was milk wśax‘. Boss William Green had goats and ‘bout a dozen heads of milch cows, young mistress. I was willed to Mars Billy. Ee went ort to war and died ‘fore the War begun, young mistress.

	“Nobody run ‘way from Boss William Green. He told ‘em ii° they run off he wouN whoop ‘em. He didn‘t have no dogs, young mistress. They be a white man near by owned nigger hounds, young mistress • He take hi s hounds,