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	SOur white folka took US to Texas du.rin‘ of the War. I think my old master 8aid we stayed there three years. My mother died there with a con~est1ve chill.

	“We come back here to Arkansas after freedom and I think my father worked for J‘ack Hall three or four years. 11e woul&n‘t let hin leave. He raised nW father and thought so much of him. He worked on the shares.

	“After freedom I went to school, I learnt to read and write but I just wouldn‘t do it. I learnt the other chiflun though. I did that. I was into ever‘ thing. I learnt them that what I could do. Blue Back? Them ‚ s the very ones I ~ studied.

	“In slavery times I had to rise as early as I could. Old master would cive me any little thing around the house that I wanted. They said he was too old to go to war. Some of the hands rthi oft but I didn‘t know where they went to.

	“Some of the people was better off slave s than they was free • I don ‚ t study bout things now but sometimes seems like all them things conies before



	“I used to hear em talkin‘ bout old J~eff Davis. I didn ‚ t know what they was talkin‘ bout but I heered. em.

	“I was sixteen when I married and I had eleven chillun. All dead but


	“Yes‘rn, I been treated good all my lite by white and. black. All of em loved iris seemed like.

	“I been livin‘ in ~&rkansas all my life. I never have worked in the field. I always worked in the house. I always was a seamstress-—made pants for the men on the place.