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	Interviewer	MissIreneRobertson

Person	interviewed     Aima1aahjn~ton~, C1arendon,~Arkan8as (Back of Mrs. Maynard‘s home in the alley)









	“I‘ve forgot who my mother‘s owner was~ She was born in V1rginia,~ She

was put on a block and sold, She was fifteen years old and she never seen her mother again after she left her, Her master was George Birdsong. He bought my papa toot They was onliest two he owned. IÏe wanted thea both light so the children would be light for house girls and waiting boys, Light colored folks sold. for more zaoney on the block,

	“The boss man over gx~andpa and ~raxidma in Virginia was 3‘ohn Glover, a~t he was not their o~mer, My ~raxidpa was about white. He eaid hi8

o~iaers was good to him but now grandma had a pided back where she had been whooïed, Grandpa coins down. from the Washington slaves s~ my papa said. That is the reason I holds to his naine and my boy holds to it~ Papa sold he had to plough and clean up new ground for Master Birdeong, He was a young raan starting out and papa and. niama was young too.

	(She left and caine back with some old scraps o~ yellow and torn papers dirrily written all over: Anna Washington, born 1860 at Hines County at Big i~ock. Mother born at Capier County, Father born at White County, Virginia~ cd.)

	“This is what was told to me by my papa: His grandraother was born of Ge orge ~iashington‘ s housemaid. That was one hundred f03‘tY ~~ars ago. His papa was educated under a fine mechanic and he help build the old 8tate~.

houc~e at ~Jashington, Major Rousy Paten was the Washington nigger

t ~~~inistrator.