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	Interviewer	Miss Irene Robertson
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	Person interviewed	Adaline Johnson
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	Age96	Eight miles fron Biscoo, Arkansas


—	— — — — — — — — — — — — — ~ — ~ ~ — — — ~ — — — — — — ~ — — — — — — — — — “I was born twelve miles from the capital, Jackson, Mississippi, on

Strickland‘ s place. 1~r mother was born in Edgecciabe County, Nortth Carolina.

MC.St!rJiVlBal7tle was old nan. He owned three big plantations, full of niggers. They took nie to Edgeccmbe County where ~r mother was born. Battles was rich set of white folks. They lived at Tarbry, North Carolina and some at Roci~r Mount. JoeBa~tle was i~r old master. There was Hue Battle toot Master Joe Battle and Mc.sterMarxnaduke was bosses of the whole countxy. They told Mars Joe not to whoop tha± crazy nigger man. He undertook it~ He hit him seven licks with the hoe and killed hin. Killed him in Miss— :Lssippi.

	“Master Mar~naduice Lei]. at the hotel at Greensboro, North Carolina~ He was a hard drinker and they didn‘t tel]. them about it at the hotel, He got up in the night, fell down the steps and killed hisself, TornWillieas didntt drink, He went to war and got shot, He professed religion when he was twelve years old and kept the faith. Had his Testament in his pocket and blood run on it, That was when he was shot in the Civil War.

	“They took that crazy nigger man to severalpiaces, found there was no law to kill a crazy ~n, They took him to North Carolina where was aU white folks at that place in Edgeccmbe County. They hung the poor crazy nigger, They was t fraid of uprisings the reason they took him to place all white folks lived.