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after the war. ~ou‘t pu.t me dOwn as no ex—s1~ve. I was born right after the war.

	“Right after the war ‚ my father farme cl in MIs $1 s s ipp I • He to o k a no ion

to corne to Arkansas in 1891. He brought his whole faniily with hirn. ~A~i~d I
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have been out here eber since.

	“I never saw any slave houses. I wa~‘~ a slave. I have oeen to tne place where my mother was raised. I was teaching school near there and ju.st ~aiited to see. After her master died, Sam McCallister)hiscousinJtook the clave chu dren and. was the ir gu~ardian. Years later it come up in court and tbey took all his land. Bill Mitchell was her first master. He died. during slave time. MeCallister was made administrator of the estate. Hewas made guardian of all the children too. He was made güardian of the white chu-. dren and of the colored children. He raised thera all. There was Ma and her auntie ar~. three or four children o f her aunt j‘ s. Later on, way after t he war, there was a lawsuit. I was grown then. The cou.rts made him pay the w)~ite children their share as far as he was able. Of course, the colored children got nothing because they were slaves when he took them.

	“I don‘t know nothing about the Ku ~.ux Klan bothering my family. I don‘t reaiember anything except that I hear them talking about the Ku Klux and the‘~tero1es. I wasn‘t here.

	“J~n‘t p~it nie downas an ex-slave. I am not sri ex-slave. I was born

after the war. I don‘t know nothing abou.t slavery exceptwhat I heard others say. I expect I have talked too much anyway.“