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	UI was born in 1856. ~y age was kept with the cattle. Ae a

.~ rule, you know, slaves were chattels. There was a fire and the Bible
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~	in which the ages were kept was loßt. The man who owned me could n‘t

remember what month I was born in. Ou~ of thirteen children, my moth.. er could only remember the age of one. I had tw4ve brother8 and eta.. ters -- Bob Lacy, William Henry, Cain Cecil, Jea8ie, Charlee, Harvey, J~ohnn1e, Anna, Rose, Kannah, Lucy, and Thomas. t am the only one living now. My parents were both slaves. ~y father ha8 been dead about fifty-nine years and my mother about aixty or aixty—one ysara. She died before I married and I have been married fifty years. I have them in iriy Bible.

	I remember ~when Lincoln was elected president and they said there was ~ Ojfl~ to be war . I remember when they had°~lave ~ market •• in New Orleans. I was living betweeen Pine Bluff and New Orleans

( living in Arkansa8 ) and saw the slaves chained together as they were bi‘ ought through ziay place and located 8Omewhere on a orne of the big farms or ~X~±t~i plantation..

	Ikzi:	I never saw any of the fighting but I did see some of ths Confederate armie8 when they were retreating near the end of the war. I was just about ten years old at the time and was in ~arahall Texas.

	The man that wned me said ±)u~ to the old people that they
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