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		RJ,D, ‚~ Br1r~k1ey, Arkansas
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	“I W~8 born three years after the atimuder. I was born at Fryera Point, Mississippi. The reason I ain‘t got the exact date ehen I was

born, my ma ptit it down in the Bible and the house burned up and every~
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thing in it burned to ashes0 No main she got somebody what could write real nice to write all the names and ages for her.

	“When nia was a young woman, she said they put her on a block and 501d her. They auctioned her off at Riobmond ‚ Virginia. When they sold her, her mother tainted or drapped dead, she never knowed which. ~he wanted to go see her mother lying over there on the ground and the man what bought her wouldn‘t let her. He just took her on. Drove her off like cattle, I recken. The man what bought her was ~phram Heater. That the last she ever knowed o~ any of her folks. She say he mated ‘em like stock so she had one boy. He livin ‚ down here at Helena now. He is Mose Kent • He was born around Richmond, Virginia joe‘ lack dat she say.

	“Y~hen it nearly ‘bo~it time for freedom a whole army ot Yankees come by and seed Moue working. They told him lt he co~ go wid them they give him that spotted horse and pair red boots. He crawled up on the horse an‘ was gone wid ‘em for a tact she said. She started right after them, following him. She followed them night and day. She nearly Starved, jesa begged ‘long the road all she could. I heard her say
how fast she have to walk to keep on trail ot ‘em and how many nights.