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	Interviewer	M~rs. ~rn1~owden~~
	Person interviewed	~jjce Rivera
w.	1?:th~~~T~}t1gh1a:nd Additiox~:; Pine ~B1iiff, Li~kansaa






	“Yes ‘ni, I remember when the ~ Yatikees CCW~ • I ricollect when they

throwed out all the meat from old master‘ a amokehouae. The colored. folks was tryin‘ to ketch it end I kxiow I tried to ketch lt too.

	“Don‘t I look like I been here in Reb. time? I was born In Mi8sisaippi on Colonel Reed‘ s place in 1857.

“I just know the Yaxikees come through. Had on bitte coats with gold
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lookin‘ buttons. I • never will forget lt ‚ cause lt was 30 frightenIng.

	“I can ricollect way back there.

	ni don‘t know whether the whIte folks was good or not, we hardly ever saw ‘em. Had a old wcman that cooked for the chillun at the quarters. I ricollect they had a 14g~1dkittle and she‘d cook that full of somethin‘. I know the old lady give us plenty of somethin‘ to eat.

	“All the white folks didn‘t treat their hands meau. Some of ‘em was a fool ‘bout them little niggers.

	“old woman what cooked for t1~ chillun was old Aunt Renie and she walked half bent with a stick.

	“I went to school some after freedom. Learned how to spell and read but not nuoh writin‘.

	ni can‘t tell you ‘bout no whippin‘s ‘cause if they whipped the folks they didn‘t do it at the quarters where the chiliun was.