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	Interviewer	Mrs. Bernice Bowden
	Person interviewed	~ia Turner	~
	.	330 L Sixth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
	Age~~ß~ ~





	“Yes ma‘~i, I was born in slavery days. They never did tell me when I was born but I was ten the seventh day of August the same year we was freed.

	“No ma‘am, I wasn‘t born in Arkansas. I was born in Georgia. I sent there and got my license to show my age. I was twenty years old when I married.

	“George Tones was my old master. But, Lawd, them folks is aU dead now. Old master and old misais, yes ma‘am, all of ‘em dead.

	“Fight ‘roj~d us? No, they didn‘t fight there but they coins through there. Yes ma‘~, they come through there. Oh, chile, they got horses

and mules.

	“Used to give us the Confederate money. Wasntt no good though. They got the silver and gold. Confederate money was white on one side and green on the other. Yee‘m, they was Yankees.

	“Oh, yes‘am, old master was good to us. He didn‘t never marry. My grandmother was the cook.

	“My mother was born in Virginia. I heerd her talk of the Nat Turner Rebellion but I never did see him.

	“Ou~]? folks stayed right on after freedom and hired by the month. And hired us children for our victuals and clothes.

	ni stayed there till I was married. Then I ecane to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Had nine children and all dead but two.