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	Interviewer	Ura..~B.rniceBoWd.n	~ ~ ~
	Person interviewed	~ro1ia.~att~ewa~
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	‘~Yes‘m, I was born in slavery times in Mlssia8ippi. Now, the only thing I remember was s~e soldiers come along on acne ~n,.les. I remember my mother and father waa sittin‘ on the gallery and they say, ‘Look a ther, them‘s soldiers.‘

“And I remeniber then my parents nui off. I was with ‚ em and I cried for ‘em to tote me.

“My mother‘s first owner was nan~d Armstrong. She said she was about

eleven years old when he bought her. I heard her say they just changed around a lot. .

	“Freedom was camin‘ and her last owners had~ carried her to a state

where it hadn ‚ t egme yet • The‘ a right—-it wae Texas.

S	“Her first owners was good. She said they wouldn‘t ‘low the overseer to ‘buke the women at all.

	“But her last owners was cruel. 8h. said one day old misais was out in the yard and backed up and tell into a ~ of hot Water and ~hen her husband

V	COnTe she told him and he tried to ‘bake my mother. You know if scii~body

tryin‘ to get the best of you and you can help yourself, you gwlne do it. So mama throwed up her arm and old master hit it with a stick and cut it bad. So my parents run off. That was in Texas.

	9She said we was a year commt back and I know they stopped at the Dillard Place and made a crop. 1ánd they lost . one child on the way-~that was Xittis.