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Per8OE~	intervi.~ed  Angsline Martin, KanataCity, M1saouri~

Vialting at 1105 LouisIana St . ‚ Pine Bluff, Arkar~aaa





	~We11, I was livin‘ then. I ias born in Georgia. Honey, I don‘t know what year. I was born before the wer. I was about ten when freedom coirie. I don‘t remember when it started but I remember when lt ended. I think I ‘m In the 80 ‚ a ~ ha‘ ~ the way I count lt.

	“My master was dead and my mistreas was a widow ~ Misa Sarah Childe. She had a guardeen.

	“~hen the war come, old mietresa and her daughter refugeed to Miss— Issippi. The guardeen wouldn‘t let me go, said I was too young.

	“My parents stayed on the plantation. My white folks‘ hou8e was vacant and the Y~~ikee8 come and used it for headquarters. They never had put 8hoes on me and when the Yankee8 shot the chickens I‘d run end get em.

They didn‘t burn up nothin‘, just kill the hogs and chickens and give us

plenty.

	“I didn‘t know what the war was about. You know chullun in them clays dldn‘ t have as much sense as they got now.

	“Ltter freedom, my folks stayed on the place and worked on the sharea. I went to 8Ch003. rIght after the war. I went every year till we left there. We cone to thia country in seventy 8omethlng. We cone here and stopped at the Ounmina place. I worked in the field till I OO~ to town bout fifty years ago. Since then I cooked some and done laundry work.