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	Person intervie~sd	Israel Jackson
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3505 sort SsooM, Pine BLuff, Arkansas
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“My neme‘ s Israel Jackson. No ma‘ em, I wasu‘ t born in Arkansas..‘.

born in Yeller ~ish County, Mississippi August de third, 1860.

	“My old master? Celled hi~ O.nersl—Gsn.rsl ~adford. I don‘t kaow vhei~s he was b~it he was gone acuawhers. Don‘ t know her ns.-~just called

her misais.

	~Yaa‘~, I was big enough to work. ~y had ~ to lead out my young master‘ e horse on de ~sis. I had a helter on it and cue ti I laid dein and went to alsep. I had de rop. tied to ~ leg end iihen it cc~ twelve o‘clock de horse drag n~ clear to de houas. No ma‘, I didn‘t weks up till I got to de houas. It was my young master‘s saddle horse.

	~Taa‘m, I knowsd dey was s war ‚ cause de ~n cc peat just as thick. No‘m, ~I wasn‘t afraid. I kipt out of de wey. Old misais woul~‘t let us get in de wa~r. I ‘bsr dey stopped dare and told us we was free. Lots of de folks went off but my mother kept workin‘ in de field, and my father didn‘t leave.

	~O1d master had u. go by his n. ~t‘s what dey called ‘em«...ell de

hands on de place.

	WI thought froa boyhood he was awful cruel. Didn‘t ‘low us chillun

in de whit folks‘ house at alt. Had one woman dat cooked. I~y was fifty or a hundi‘.d chillun on de place end dey had a big long trough dug out of a log and each chile had a spoon and he‘d eat out of dat trough. Yas‘a, I ‘ber dat. Ist ~sens and milk. As for meat, we didn‘t know what dat was.