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	IntervieWer~	MjaaIrene Robertson
	Person interviewed~	Take W~ker~j~heat3~ey. Ltkansaa

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	“I was born seven or eight inile8 frcni fernando, Misaissippi. My pa was a slave over twenty years0 He belong to Master Will Walker, arid his white mistress was Ann. They brought hint from ‚ round Athene ‚ Georgia, 11e was heired through his master. His own. mother died at his birth axicl he was the son of a peddler through the country. He was a furriner but pa never could tell. His young master never told him. His nia was the nurse about the place • The peddler was ~a white man of some kind. He kept ccniing about

selling ~ooda. Tus does made a bad racket. They never bought nothin€ muc~.
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Old master suspicioned him trying to ~et away with something abowt‘the place.

He come right out and accused him to being up to ecmething. He denied it.

He told the peddler not to come backe He never. After it was over she told

her mistress. He wanted her to go on off with him. That made them mad.

But he never was seen about there.

	~v:~hen will Walker got married he wanted my pa. and he v~as give to him, a horse arid buggy, two mules, a lamb, and five young cows. He had some money and he come to Mississippi. I reckon he did bu~y some 3~and. He got to be a slave owner before freedom. Pa said he drove the horse to the bug~ and his master rode a mule, led a mule and brought his cows, and th4y kept the lamb in the buggy with them nearly aU the way.

	“I think they was good to him. Eis young mistress cried so much they all went back once before freed~. They went on Christmas time.