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	Interviewer	Mrs. Bernice Bowdsn
	Pel‘BOfl interviewed	         William J~ackson
	  ~	Route 6, Box 81, Pine Bittif, Arkanaaa
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“Ms? Well, I was born July 12, 1853. Noi you can figure that up. RI was sold tour tiinea in slavery times. I was aold through the nigger

traders and you know they du‘ t keep you long.

	RI waa born in ~enneaaee, raised~ in Miaaiasippi, and been here in Arkan8aa up and down the Arkaxiaas River ever since I was fifteen.

	“A fellow. bought me in Tennessee and sold me to a fellow named Abe Gollins In Mississippi. Re sold me to Dr. Maloney and then Winn and ~rimble In Hempstead County bought me. They run a taxiyard.

	“I went to school one day in my life. My third inaster‘a children learned ins my ABC‘s In slavery times. I‘m not educated but I can read. Read the Bible and something like that.

	NThe Ku Klux run ins one night. They come to the door and I went out

the window. They vent to my master‘ s tanyard in broad open dey and took leather. Oh, I been all throu~i the rouglineas. &it the Lord has bleasd me ever since I been in this world. I can see good and hear good and get about.

	~I come here to Arkansas with some refugees, and I been up and down the river ever since.

	‘In slavery times I had plenty to eat ‚ such as ‚ twas. }J.ad biscuits on S~inday made out of ehorts.