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	“There W~8 nine of US children. I got one girl very low now. She‘s in Memphis. I been in. Arkansas 45 years. I come here jes‘ drifting 1ook-~ ing out a good locatioxi. I never had no dealings with the Ku Klux. I been farming aU~ my life. Yes, I did like it. I nover owned a home nor no land. I never voted in my life. I had nine children of my own but only my girl living nov.

	“Nine or ten years ago I could work every minute. Times was goodi good! Could get plenty work--wood to cuit and ditching. It is not that way now. I can‘t do a day‘s work now~ I‘m tailing fast. I feel it.

	“Young folks can make a living it they work and try. Some works too hard and sonie don‘t hardly work. Work is scarcer than it ever was to my knowledge. Times changed and changed the young folks. Mother died two or three years after the War. My father died first year we come to Misaissippi.

	~e went by and took the old Negro to West Memphis. frc~ there he could take a jitney to Memphis to see his daug,hter-‘-ed.~j

	n i ‘ t never been ‚ rested • I am ‚ t been to j ail • Nearly well be as so confined with the mud. ~e assured him it was nicer to ride in the car than be in jail--ed•J

	NI couldn‘t tell how maxiy‘I ever seen sold. I seen some sold in Virginia, I reckon, or Maryland.—~one off the boats. They keit them tied. They was so scared they might do anything, jump in the big waters. They couldn‘t talk but to sane and he would tell ihite folks what he said. ~!hey used an interpreter.J Some couldn‘t understand one another if they co~ from far apart in the foreign country. slavery wasn‘t never bad on ~. I never was sold off from my folks and I had warmer, better clothes