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	“J!h6 soldiers e~ae and I knowed it wa~ the Yankees I hated. They took

all they could find and wasted a lot of jt~ I was ecare~, i kept hid about. The slaves put their beds and elothe8 up on the wagons and ~nt off behind them and soxr~e dumb up in the wagons. I heard Miss Betty say, ‘They need not follow thorn off, they are already free.‘ The way she 8ald it, like she was heart broken, made rae nearly cry and I remember her very words till this day0 She was a good w~na~

	“Mama come and got me long time after that and. I cUdri‘ t want to go nor stay neither, It was like taking me off from my own hoene. Papa was

freeborn and freedom I couldn‘t understand till I was long grown. I never

~ot a whooping in xriy life ~ I was taught politeness,

	“During slavery we bought mighty littles Flour in barrels, salt, We had naple sugar and sorghum mola8ses in bounty. We was happy and had plenty to eat and wear,

	t, I learned to make the fine cakes from a J~ew woman (Tewess ) ‚ Mrs.

Isaac. I‘ve been called a cook here in Forrest City, I was taught by Mrs.

Isa~ic to make angel food, coffee eake, white bread. and white cakes, Frcm that I made the other kinds ray own self.“







Interviewer‘s Gc~riient

	People in Forrest City send for Ida and keep her a week or two baking Ch~j straas and wedding cake s,