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When they freed the Negroes, lt broke him up completely. B~ had been called a ‘blg4O~d0‘ In his life but he wasn‘t nothing then. He owned Grandma Katy.

	“Grandma Katy had a sister xiamed Maria and a brother named Peter0 He owned all three of them, I have seen ai]. of them0 Grandma Katy was the oldest, She arid Uncle Peter stayed close together. He didn‘t have no wife

and she dldn‘ t have no husband, Thit Aunt Maria had a husband, She lived off from them after freedom. It was about twelve miles away. My great~

aunt aiid great~uncle‘—4hey were Maria and Peter~that was what they were~ Uncle Peter died first betore I left Louisiana, but Aunt Maria and Grandma Katy died atter I carne to Arkansas, Grandma Katy lived four years after I came here.

“After they was tree anti my father had gotten large enough to work and

didn‘ t have no horse, my grandma was going ‚ round waiting on women-..that is all she did—all the rest of the people had gotten large and left homa,

Papa made a crop with a hoe, He made three bales of cotton and about twelve loads of corn with that hoe, He used to tell me ‚ ‘You don‘ t know nothin‘

‘bout work. You oughter see how I had to work.‘ After that he bought him a

horse1 Money was scarce then and it took something to buy the place and the horse both, They were turned loose from slavery without anything, Hardly had a surnaii~--Just Katy, Maria, and Peter.

~ “I knew more about the slave‘a.tlnm history of my mother‘s folks than I did about my father‘s but I‘ll tell you that some other tine. My grand~ mother on by mother‘ s side was born in Richmond, Virginia, She . was owned by a doctor but I an‘ t call his nama . She gets her naz~ from her husband‘ s

Owners, They came from Virginia. They didn‘ t take the zieme of their owners In Louisiana, ~ They took the n~ Of the owners in Virginia. She was a twin~