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	Person interviewed	~iii~e Waiiaee
40th and Georgia Streets,. Pine BlufT, Arkansas
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	“I was born in Green County, Alabama. Elihu Steele was my old masters ~iiss Julia was old miasis~ She was ~1ihu‘s wife. Her mother‘s name was Penny Eatter, Miss Penny give my mother to her daughter Julia.

	ni was a twin and they choo~ed us f~or the cook arid washer and ironer, but surrender cxne along tf0~ we got big enough to do anything.

	“My father was crippled and couldn‘t work in the field, and I remember he used to carry the children out to the field to be suckled.

	“They had a right smart of slave s • My mother had twelve children and ~ttm the baby.

	“I remember they‘d make up a big pot of corn bread and pot-~1iquor and they‘d say, ‘Eat, chillun, eat,‘

	“I remember o~e time the white folks had sane stock tied out, and I know my sister‘s little boy didn‘t know no better and he showed the Yankees

where they was.

	“I remember when they said the people was free, but our folks stayed ri~ht on there..~..I don‘ t know how many years~! cause my mother thought a heap of her old 11113813, Penny,

	“1 went to school after freedom and learned how to read and write and figger. I worked in the field till I got disabled. I never did wash and iron and cook for the white tolks,