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	Interviewer	Mrs.Bex,iiee Bowden	7‘~‘~
	PerSon interviewed	Charlie ~cC1endon ~ ~ - .- - - ~- - ( ~/4 ~:
.	708 1. Pourth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkax~aas \
	Age_W 7?	-—





	“I don‘t know exactly how old I ~. I was six or seven when the war ended. I member dia ~— my moth3r aäid I was born on Christmas day.

Old master W~8 goin‘ to war and he told her to take good. care of that boy ~— he was goin‘ to make a fine little man.

	“Did I live up to It? I reckon I waa bout as ~nart a man a~ you could jump up. The work dn‘ t get too hard for ~. I tarmed and I sawxailled a lot • Mo8t o~ my time was rarmin‘.

	“I been in ~offerson County all my lire. I went to school three or four S888iOfl8~

	“About the war, I member dIs ~ I member they carried us to Camden end I saw the guards. I‘ d say, ‚ Give me a pistol . ‚ They‘ d say, ‚ Come back tomorrow and ‘ Il give you n‘ They had me runnin‘ back there every day and I never did get one. They was Yankee soldiers0

	“Our t‘olks‘ master was William L Johnaon. Oh Lord, they was just as good to us as could be to be under slavery.

	“After they got free my people stayed there a year or two and then our master broke up and went back to South Carolina and the folks went in different directions, Oh Lord, my parents sho was well treated, Ye8 xna‘m. 1fb he had a overseer, he wouldn‘t low him to whip the folks. He‘d Say, ‘$ust leave em till I come home.‘ Then he‘d give em a light breshin‘,