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:~i 1. 14th Avenue, Pixie Bluff, Arkansas






	“I was born la South Carolina anö~ I was my mother‘ s baby chile.

	“Yacob Fostar was our old. master and he sold my mother over in east Tennessee. Now of cose she wasn‘t put upox~ the block and sold. She was the house wonia~ and. spin and wove. After they sold her ~ father ~n off. Oh sure, they caught him and I know old mistress said, ‘Now, Jacob, 1f you want to go where Lydia is, you can go.‘ So they sold him near her.

	“I stayed with the Fosters till peace was declared and ever‘thi~tg was

declared free • Then my father corne after ~.

	WI can just sketch things. I try to forget it. My niother and father was pretty agreeable when they was set free.

	I‘m Tennessee we stayed at the foot of Lookout Mountain and I can remember seem‘ the cannon bails.

	“Here‘s the way I want to tell you. Some of the white people are as good to the colored people as they coald be and some of em are mean. My own folks do so bad I‘m ashamed of axa.

	wso many of the colored of the South have emigrated to the North. I have I ived there and I don ‚ t ~ow why I ‘m here now.

	“Some of my color don‘t like that about the Yim Crow Law, but I say if they furnish us a nice comfortable coach I would rather be with mY own people. And I don‘t care to go to the white folks‘ church.