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FOLKLORE SUB~CTS


Name of interviewer ~ s. s. Taylor

~ubjeCt ~- Confederate Army Negroe8; Ex-slave Occupatioria StorY or Informatiori8
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	and thei fought the awfuleat battle you ever “heered“ of. The men lay dead iii rows and rows and rowa. The dead men covered whole fieldS. And General Lee aald that there wa(~t any uae doing any inCiTC f1gbtifl~. General Grant let all the rebels keep their guns He dlcCh‘t taue nothin‘ away from them.

I saw General GranAwhen he came to Little Rock. There wae an ~o1d white man who had never been .o Little Rock in Ma life. Ne said “I just had to C ~e up here to see this great general that they ‚~re talking about~‘

Occupat i ons
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	We always worked in the field in slave time. I don‘t know n~th*

in about share cropping because i: always did days work. I used to ~et four and fivedollar~ a week for washing. But now they wants the young ~olks and they don‘t pay them five dollars for everything. I cantt ~et a pension. Why you reckon they won‘t give me one~. They don‘t L~nderstand that that little house X own doeCh‘t even keep itself up. ~ty dau~hter~ini.‘law is good to me but shee needs everything she makea. 3: can‘t get much to do now, and what little I gets, they don‘t pay me
iuch for.

	I dont remember nothin‘ else.

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hj~ information given by Eliza ~Nashington

lace of residence 151? W. 17th Street, Little Rock, Ark. CcUpatjon ~ Washing and Ironing -~ Age about 7?
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