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1513 State Street, Little Rock, Arkansas	~





	“No ma‘em, lt will not bother me one bit if you. want to have a long visit with me. . . . Yes, I was a little busy, but it can wait, I was getting my dishes ready for a party tomorrow night. •

	~Yea ma‘am, I was born during slavery. I was born at a little place called Fort Valley In Georgia, J‘uly 25, 1851. Port Valley is about 30 miles from Macon. I ca~ to Little Rock in 1873. ~ old mistrecs was a widow. As well as Z can rernembex‘ ~she did not have any slaves but my tather and mother and the six children. No ma‘~, her

~	naine was not Miller, lt was lade. . . . There did I get my na~, then?

~	It came from my grandfather on my father‘ s side . . . . Well ‚ now, Mies, • I can‘t tell you where he got that na~.. From eo~ white master, I reckon.

“We got free in Georgia J~une 15, 1865. PU never forget

that date. What I sean is, that was ~he day the big freedom ce~e. &tt we didn‘ t know it and just worked on. My father Was a shoemaker tor old mistress. Only one In town, fai a~ I recollect. ~e • made a lot of money for mistress. Mother was houseworker tor her.

As fast ~s us children got big enough to hire out, she leased us to anybody who would pay for our hire. I was put out with another widow worn who lived about 20 miles. She worked me on her cotton Plantation. Old mistress sold one of my sisters, took cotton ~or pay.