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Interviewer  ~  .-~-	3iissireñeRobertson

Person	interviewed~ai~e P.~4de~.WestMa~this, Arkansas

Age69





	“I am Martha J~ohnson‘s sister. I was born at‘ Lake Village, Arkansas. • I am 69 years old. ~ I was born on Mr. I~ce Wethingtona place. Pa was renting. Mother died in 18‘?6 on this ~ We called it Red Leaf plantati on. Father died at Martha ~ohnson‘ a here in West Memphis when ~he was 88 years old.

	“Mother was not counted a slave. Her master‘s Southern wife (white wife ) di sliked I~er very imich 1~ut kept her t ill her death, Mother had threà white children by her master. After freedom she married a black nmn and had four c~41dren ~y him. We e~e In the last set,

	“We was born after slavery and a11 we k~iow is l‘rom hearing our people talk. Father talked all time about slavery. Ee was a sol.. dier. I couldn‘t t.ll you.straight. I ea~i give you so~ bpoka on slavery:

Booker T. Washington‘ s Own $tory of His Lite and Work,. 64 page supplement, by 4lbon L. Holsey
Authentic ~dition—~.in office of Library. of Congress, Washington, D.. C., 1915, copywrighted by ~J. L. Nichols Co. ~

The Master Mind o~ a Child of Qavery.~~Booker ‚ T, Washington, by ~rederiok. Z . brinker, .. Washington, D. C.
I have read them both.~ Yes, they ~are my qwn bo~ka, “I farmed and cooked all my lite.“