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	Interviewer	Samuel S. T~yior~~

Person interviewed u-j	.  ~s - ~   ~ ~ _  — - —--u ~ a— 1)22 Cr6aa Street, Little Rock, Arkansas

	Age________






	“I was born in Huntsville ‚ A1abama~ My mother brought me from there when I was five years old ~ She said she would come to Arkansas because she had beard so much talk about it~ But when she struck the Arkansas line, she didn‘ t like it and she wanted to go back. I have heard her say why but I don‘t remember now; I done forgot. She thought she wouldn‘t like lt here, but she dId after she stayed a while0

	“My bronchial tubes git all stopped up and make it hard for me to talk, Phle~n gits all around, I been bothered with them a good while now~

	“My mother, she was sold from her father when she was four years old. The rest of the children were gröwn then, Master hickman was the one who bought her. I don‘t know the one that sold here Hickman had a lot of children her age and. he raised her up with them. They were nice to her all
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	“Once the pateroles came near capturing her. Bit she made it home and they didn‘t catch her0

	“Mr0 Candle hired her from her ni~ster when she wa~ about eighteen years old, He was nice to her but his wife was ti~an. J\ist because mother wouldn‘t do everything the other servants said Mie‘ Candle wanted to whip her, Mother said she knew that Mie‘ Candle couldn‘t whip her alone. But she was ‘fraid that she would have Saille, another old Negro woman slave, and Kitty, a young Negro woman slave, to help whip her,