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Cresa Mack

1417 Short Indlexia St . ‚ Pine Bluff ‚ Ark.



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	~I can tell you 8omethiflg about slavery daya. I wa~ born at South Bend, Arkanaae on the old Joe Clay place. I ‘member they used to work !em SCandalOUs. They uaed n~ at the hou8e and I used to wait on old flh1atI~e38‘ brother. He was a old man named Cal Fletcher.

	“i: ‘member when they said the Yankees was commt the boss man put us in wagor~s and ruimed us to Texas. They put the wcmon and chillun In the wagons but the men had to walk, E know I waa something over twelve years old.

	MOld miatress, Mißs Sarah Clay, took her chillun and went to Mein.~ phi a.

	“My white folks treated us very well. I

mother but once ‚ but I seen some whipped till

rna‘m I have.

	t, ~ can ‘member a lot ‚ bout the war. The

I ‘member they used to sing

‘Run nigger run, The padd3rrollere‘ll ketch you, Run nigger run.‘

	“Corse if they ketch you out without a pass they‘d beat you nearly to death and tell you to ~o home to your master.
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never seed ~em whip my they‘ß speechless. Yea
Lord have mercy ‚ I ‚ se old.