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	Interviewer	Pernella Anderson
	Person Interviewed	AnnieMae Weathers
		~ast Bone Sti~eet
	Age ~ ?	El Dorado ‚ Ark.





	HI was born bout the second year after surrender right down here at Caledonia. Now the white folks that ma and pa and me belonged to was named Fords. We farmed all the time. The reason we Larmed all the time was because that was all for us to do. You see there wasn‘t nothin‘ e1~e for us to do. There wasn?t no schools in my young days to do no good, and this time of year we was plowin‘ to beat the band and us always planted dorn in Feb— ruary and in April our corn was.

	tt~e fixed our ground early and planted early and we had good

crops of everything. We went to bed early and rose early. We had a little song that went like this:

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
and

The early bird catches the worm.

cooked breakfast every morning by a pine torch.

	f, I member hear i~ ~y pa s ay that when s omebody come and hollowed: ‘yer niggers is free at lastt say he just dropped his hoe and said in a que er voice ~ Thank God for that • ‚ It made old rniE;s and old moss so sick till they stopped eating a week. Pa said old. moss and old miss looked like their stomach and guts had a law suit and their navel was called in for a witness, they was EO sorry we was free.