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	Thterviewsr	Mrs. Bernioe Bowden
	Person interview.d	Lizzis MoCloud	.  ~
l2O38hà~rt 13th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age  120?	‚ .
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	“I was one of ‘em bless your heart. Yes rna‘m. yes ma‘m, I wouldn‘t tell you a lie ‘bout that. It I can‘t tell you the truth I‘m not goin‘ tell you nothin‘!

	“Oh yes, I ~is a young lady in slavery times —~ bred and born in Tennessee. Mise Lizzie and Mares ~Tohn Williams —~ I belonged to them sho did2 I was scared to death of the white folks. Miss Lizzie ~ she mean as the devil. She wouldn‘t step her foot on the ground, she so rich, No ma‘m wouldn‘t put her foot on the ground. Bave her carria~ drive up to the door ~nd have that silk carpet ~t dom for her to walk

on.	Yes Lord. Wouldn‘t halt feed us and they went and named me aft•r her.

	“I know all about the stars fallin‘. I was out in the field and just Coifle in tO ~5t our dinn•r. Got so dark and the stars begin to play un. Mistress say, ‘Lizzie, it ‚ e the jud~nent. ‚ She was just a hollerin‘. Yes ma‘m I was a young women. I been here a long ti~, yes ma‘m, I been here a long tine. Worked an~ whipped,. too. I run ofT many a time. Run oft to see my mammy three or four miles tr~ where

I was0

	“I never was sold b~.tt they took we young wcmen and brought us doun in the country to another plantation where they raised corn, wheat, and hay.