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	Interviewer~	~jI,~• ~ Bowdon
	Per8oxl interviewed	Sei~ja Basaberry
	810 Cat&4a Street ‚~Pine	if, £rkansaa
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	“Yes‘m, I know what I hear em say. Well, in slavery times I helped make the soldiers‘ clothes.

	“I was born on the old J~ack Hall place on the Arkansas River in .Ieffer8on County.

	“I know I was ‘leven years old ~ien peace declared. I reckon I can member fore the War started. I know I was bastin‘ then coats and pants.

	“My old master‘s naine was J~ack Hall and old mistress‘ name was Priscilla. Oh, yes‘m, they was good to me—~just a8 good to me as they could be. ~it ever‘ once in awhile they‘ d call ins and say, ‚ t I‘d say, ‘What you want?‘ They say, ‘ t you out there dein ‚ so and so?‘ I‘d say, ‘No.‘ They say, ‘Now, you‘re tellin‘ a lie‘ and they‘d whip ~.

	“I was the house girl, zus and my siater~ My mammy was the cook.

	“Old master had two plantations. $omstimes he had a overseer and sornetinies h~ didn‘t.

	“Oh, they had plenty to eat, hog meat and cracklin‘ bread. Yes ma‘em, I loved that, I reckon. I et so rauch ot it then I don‘t hardly ever want it now. They had so much to eat. Blackberry cobbler? Oh Lawd,

	“How many brothers and sisters? Me? My dear, I don‘t know how many I had but I heard my mother say that all the chillun she did have, that she had ‘1eir~~ chulluzi.