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	Interviewer	L ~ Irene Robertaon

Person interviewed.P~y1or Jackson, Kdmondson~ Arkansas

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RI was born two miles troiu Baltimore, Maryland. I waa a good size boy.

My father carried n~ to see the war flag go up. There was an avfu.1 crowd, one thousand people ‚ there • I had two masters in thi s country besides in Virginia. When war was declared there was ten boats of riiggers loaded at Washington and shipped to New Orleans. We stayéd in the ‘Nigger Traders Yard‘ there about three months. &it we was not to be sold. Master Cuppa [Gulps?) owned father, mother and ail ot us. It they gained the victory he was to take us back to Virginia. I never knowed my grandparents. The yard had a tall brick wall around it. We had. a bunk room, good cotton pads to sleep on and blankets. On one side they had a wall fixed to go up on fr~ the inside and twelve plattorms. You could see them being sold on the in‘. side and the crowd on the outside. When they ~ctioned them off they would

coIns ‚ pick out what they wanted ~ to 8011 next and fill them blocks again.
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„ They sold niggers all day long. They come in another drove they had, had

men out buying over the country. They come in thick wood doors with iron nails bradded through ‚ fastened on big hinges ‚ tastened it with chains and iron bars. The hou8e was a big red brick house. We didn‘t get non• too much to eat at that place. I reckon one side was three hundred yard long ot the wall and the house waa that long. Some of them in there cut their hands off with a knife or ax. Well, they couldn‘t sell them.