30686	f~i
	Interviewer	Samuel S~ T~y1or	-	~
	Per$on Interviewed	I~he Webb
	—- 1_10 Cross ~triit, LitÏ)ï Rock, Arkansas
	Age78~or more






	“I was born October 14, That was iii. slavery time. The record is burnt up. I was born in. Atlanta, Georgia. My father‘s master was a ~iebb. 1-lis first name was Huel. My father was named after him, I came here in

1874, and I was a boy eleven or twelve years old then.

	“My father was sold to another man ror seventeen hundred dollara, My mother was sold for twenty hundred. I have heard them say that so mu~ch that I never will forget it. Webb sold my father and bought him back. My me‘ s folks were Calverts ~ The Calverts and the Webbe owned adjoining piantat ions.

	“My ~randinother on my mother‘s side was a Calvert too. Her first narae was Joanna. I think my father‘s parents got beat to death in slavery. Grandfather on my möther‘s side was tied to a stump and whipped to death. i[e was double jointed and no two men could whip him. They wanted to whip him because he wouldn‘t work. That was what they would whip any one for, They would run. off before they would work, stay in the woods all night.

	“My Grandma Calvert was buried over here in Galloway on the Rock L~1and road on the .Tohn i~ynes plantation.

	“My folks‘ masters were all right, &~t them nigger drivers were bad, just like the county farm. A man sitting in the house and putting you over ~t lot of men, you gwinter go up high as you want to,