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Misa Irene Robertson
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Palestine, Arkansas
IntervIeWer

Person Interviewed

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“I will be eighty years old my next birthday. It will be ~uly 6th.

Father was bought frcni Kentucky. I u.ldn‘ t tell you about him. He stayed

oI~ the Reavea place that year, the year of the surrender, and l~tt, Re didn‘t live with mother ever again. I never did hear no reason. He went

0E.	Joe Night‘s farm. fie left n~ and a sister older but there was one dead between us. Mother raised us. She stayed on with the Reavea two years after he left. The last year she was there she hired to than. The only thing she ever done bofore freedom was cook and weave. She had her lo~ in the kitchen. It was a great big kitchen built off trcm the house and a portico joined it to the house. I used to lay up under her loom. It waz warm there In winter time. I was the baby. I heard mother say s~ things I remember well.

	“She said ehe was never sold. ~ie said the Reaves said her children need never worry, they would never be sold. We was Heaves from back yonder~ Mother‘s grandfather was a white man. She was a Reaves and her c;~: ii dren are mostly Reavea. She was light • Father was about ‚ might be a little darker than I am (mulatto). At times she worked in the field, ~4t ifl rush time. She wove all the clothes on the place. She worked at the loom and I lay up under there all day long. Mother had three girls and f~ivs boys0