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	Interviewer	Samue1S.T~yior
	Person interviewed	Alice J‘OhnaOfl
601 W. Eighth $treet, Little Rock, Arkan3as
	Age___J?






	“You wallt to know what they did in slavery tin~sL They were dom‘ jus‘ what they do now0 The white tàlk8 was beatin‘ the niggers, burning ‘ein and boum‘ ‘ein, workin‘ ‘ein arid dom‘ any other thins they wanted to do with them. ‚ Course you waan ‚ t he re then to I~ow about nigger do~8 and bull whips, were you? The same thine is soin‘ on right now, They got the sane bull whips and the sane old nigger dogs • If you don‘ t bel ieve it ‚ go right out here to the county farm and you find ‚ em ~ti11 ‘ the niggers and tearing them up and 8ornetiines lettin‘ the dogs bite them to save the bull whips.

	“I was here in slavery tira but I was small and I don‘t know much‘ about it t cept what they told ~ ~it you don‘ t need to go no further to hear all you want to know, They sont you to the right o They all know nm and they call me Mother Tohnson. So many rolk8 been here long as n~, but don‘t want to admit it. They black their hair and whiten their faces, and powder and paint. t Course it‘s good to look good all right. ~.it when you start that stuff, you ~ot to keep it up. Tain‘t no use to start and stop0 After a while you got that saine color hair and them seine splotches again. Folks say, ‘Tihat‘s the matter, you gittin so dark?‘ Then you say, ‘Uh, my liver is bad.‘ You got to keep that thing up, baby.

	“I thank God for my age. I thank God He‘s brought n~ safe all the way. That is the matter with this world now, It ain‘t got enough religion.