Interv1ewer~  ~	~ Bowdea
	Pei‘eoii interviewed	~ Cia~?io.jackaon
~t?3B Virginia Street, Pine Muff, Arkanaa~
	Age  ~


—	~ — ~ ~ — — — ~Iaa I hers in ~1avery deys? Well, I remembr when the ao]41•rs went•

to war. Oh, I‘m old ~ I ain‘t no baby. ~t t been well taken care of —. I been treated ~.ll.

	“I was bred and born right h•rs in Arkansas and been livin‘ bers all the time ‚ cept when they eald the Yenkeea we.8 ecmin‘ • I know we vas juat olosin‘ up a crop. They pit us in wagona and carried ua to Wolf Cresk in Taxai and then they carried us to Red River. That was becauas it ~uld bs long.r ‘tors we found out i. wae fre and they would g~t more work out a ua.

“Old maeter‘e nei~ wae Robert Johnaon end they oafled hin Bob.

	•Aftsr freedom they brought ua back to 4rkanaaa and ~it the oolor.d folks to workin‘ on the sham. Yes‘m they said they got their alLaIs. They looked like they ~a well contentsd, They stayed three CI fOul‘ 7e5I8~ Wo was treated aors kinder and them that was not big enough to work was let go to school. I went to school awhi].s and then I had a hard ape].]. of sickness it was this slow fever. I was sick fivs or six weska and it was a long tim• ‘for• I could get my health so I didn‘t try to go to school no more. Ss•~d like I forgot everything I knowed.

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ned, but I found out things was iusssr. ~t ~y husband was good to .