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	“Vflien mothøl‘ worked out ‚ the people that hired her paid her ownera, Her owners furnished her everything ~e wanted to eat and clothea to wear, and~ all the money she earned went to them,

	“MIs‘ Candle begged Mr. Hickman to let him have mother back, He said he‘d talk to his wire and she wouldn‘t mistreat her any more but mama said that she didn‘t want to go back and Mrs. Hickman said, ‘No, she doesn‘ t went to go back and I wouldn‘ t make her. ‚ And the girls said, ‘No ‚ mama,

	t t let her go back • ‚ And Mi ‘ Hickman said ‚ ‚ No ‚ she was raised with my girls and I em not going to let her go back.‘

	“The Hickmans had my mother ever since she was four years old, My grandfather was allowed to go a certain distance with her when she was sold away from him. He walked and carried her in his armas Mama said that when he had gone as far as they would let him go, he put her in the wagon and turned his head away • She said she wondered why he didn ‚ t look at her ;. but later she understood that he hated so bad to ‘part from her and couldn‘t do nothing to prevent it that he couldn‘t bear to look at her.

	“Since I have been grown I have worked with some people at Newport. I stayed with them there and married there, and. had all my children there.

	“I heard the woman I lived with, a woman named Diana Wagner, toi]. how her mi stre as said ‚ ‚ Coins on, Diana ‚ I want you to go with me down the road. a piece • t And she went with her and they got to a place where there was e. whole lot of people. They were putting them up on a block and selling them just like cattle. She had a little nursing baby at home and she broke away from her mistress and them and. said, ‘I can‘t go off and leave my baby.‘ And they had to git some man and throw her down and hold her to keep her from goin‘ back to the house • They sold her away from her baby boy. They didn‘ t let her go back to see him again. &tt she heard from him