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	“The owners wa~ tryin‘ to hide the colored people. Our white foIk8 took some of us olear out In Texa8 to keep the Yankees from gettin‘ ein. MiS$ Liza was Miss Netta‘s daughter and she was mean as her old daddy. She said, ~ Oh, yes ‚ you little devils ‚ you thought you was • goin‘ to be free Z‘ She had a good brother though. Ho wanted to swap a girl for me. so I could be back here wi th my mairimy ‚ but Mi s s Li z a would.n ‚ t turn me Ioo se. No sir, she wouldn‘t.

	“After freedom I hired out - cooked, milked cows and washed and ironed.

	UI went back to Mis$issippi and stayed with my father. old Henry Rails ßold my father fore we come to Arkan$as.

	HI never been married. I could have married, but I didn‘ t • I ‘ t know hardly why.

	ni been r~iakin‘ my own livin‘ pretty much since I left my father.

	“Biggest majority of younger generation looks like they tryin‘ to get a education and tryin‘ to make a livin‘ with their brain without usin‘ their hands. But I‘d rather use my hand$ cose I would.

	‘II went to school some after the war, but I had to pay for it.

	“I been disabled bout five or six years. Got to have sornethin‘ to take U3 away, I gue$~.“