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M~ ~thsr would go huntin‘ at night end get a ‘poe~ to f..d ~i. end

acieeti~s old master would ketch her and take it away fr~ her end gIve bar

a piece of eilt emat. ~at scemti~s shs‘d biry a ‘possua till ih• had a

chance to cook it. And dey‘d teks seokin‘ like you niake cotton sacks end

dy• it end make us clothes.

Nihen de conch would blow at four o‘ clock every ~nornin‘ everybody got

up and got ready for d fisid. 1~y‘d take dire chiflun up to dat big long house. Ihm mother went to de field I‘d go along end lead de horse tiLl. I got to where dey was vorhin‘ ‚ then I‘d .it down and lit the horse eat. I was young end it‘s been so long.

“No zaa‘sm, I never went to school. No aa‘em, can‘t read or irite.

Never had no schools sa I reemwber. .

9~y stajed on de place after fr.dcm. No ma‘em, dey did not psy ‘em.

I‘.. old bit I ain‘t forgot dat. I~y fed theireslvse by etoelin‘ end gettin‘ things in de woods.

“After dem Blus Yacket. ccem in dire General Bradford never did c~

back and our folks ~ stayed den end when dsy did leave day went to ~inflowr County. After dat we got along better.

“How many brothers and sisters? I b‘lieve X had five.

RI etsyod with my parents till I was grown. No Wem, dey didn‘t ‘low

us to ~rry. thin ~ wae twenty ~ was nsitbsr man nor boy; ~ was considered a hobble‘.dehoy. And when ~ got to be tw.nty-ons we vas ooneidersd a ~sn and you~r parents turned you 100es, a men. So I left ho~ end rnt to Louisiana. I etsyed den a year, tben I vent back to Mississippi end worked. I ocem hers to Arkansas twentyeix y.ars ago. Is dis Jefferson? 1.11, I cc~e here to de vest end.

~8ince I been hire I been workin‘ at de foundry—Difley‘s foundry.