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14Th. Bernice Bowden

-	- w-. —-- Parxt~i» Washin~gton -- W---
-	812 Spruce $treet, i~ine Bluff, Arkansis
down to Pine Bluff.
me though--
just got
Interviewer Person interviewed_______________________________________________ ~ge86____






?~I was born in 1852-—born in Arkansas. Sam Warren was my old master.

	“I remember soins of the Rebel generals.-—General Price and General i~ari~iaduke.

	“We had started to Texas but the Yankees got in ahead of us in the Saline bottons and we couldn‘t go no further.

	“My boss had 80 nach faith in his own folks he wouldn ‚ t leave here ‚ til it was too late. He left home on Saturday night and got into the bottoms on sunday and made camp. Then the Yankees got in ahead of him and he couldn‘t ~o no further, so we come back to Jefferson County.

“The Yankees had done took Little Rock and come “My father died in 1860 and my mother in 1865.

trI can remember when they whipped the slaves. Never whipped

they was just trainin‘ me up.

	“Had an old. lady on the place cooked for the children and we ~ihat ~e could.

	“I remember when peace was declared, the people shouted and rejoiced—-a ~teavy load had fell off,

	“~ai the old hands stayed on the place. I stayed there with my uncle ~d(i aunt. We «as treated better then, I was about 25 years old when I left there