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‚~ J ~	Person interviewed  Bichax~d ~ Mc~niel ‚ Brinkley~ r~az~aas~ ~ Age  ‘73 ~
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“I was born in Newton County, Miseiseippi the firót year of the

surrender. ~ I don‘t think my mother waa sold and I know my father was

never sold. ;Tim McDaniel raised my father and one sister after ail letber died. One sister was~niarried when she died. 1 heaxd hia say when he got mad he would quit work. Ee aaid old ~ater wouldn‘t l•t the mietrs8a whoop hini and she wouldn‘t let him whoop my father, My father was a black aa~ but my mother was light. ~er rather was a white man and hsr mother part Indian and White mixed, so what am I? My mothr was oined by pople nan~d Waah. Dick Waah was her young niostar. ~y parents‘ names was Willie and Elsie McDaniel. When it was fresdc~ I heard them say ~ster McDaniel told them they was fre•. Ue was broke. It they could do better go on, he

du‘ t blame them, he àouldn ‚ t pronii~e them much now. They moved ott on another man‘ e place to share crop. They had to work sa bard and . didn‘ t have no more than they had in e1av.ry~ That is what they ~ told me . They oou]4• move around and visit arotind wIthout aakin~. They eald lt didn‘t 12ghtsn. the work none but it lightened the rations ri~ht ‚~art~ Moater McDaniel nor my father neither one went to wax‘~

	“Fro~n the way I alwaye beard i ‚ the ~i ~lux was the law like ni*t Watobman. When I was a boy there was a lot ~ ot stealing and bua1iwhackin~, Fo1k~ nieet you omit and kill ~ rob you, whoop y~x. 4 few of th black len

dn‘ t work and wanted to ~tial. That ~i Klux Wa. the law watching arowid.

Polka was scared of ém. I did 5S0 thUI~ ~ I would run hid..