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That was In addition to the grou.wl that he would contract to plant. He used to plant rice, peas, potatoes, corn, and anything else he wax~ted too. it was ai]: ~ ‘n 80 lOfl~ as lt was on extra ground he cleared up.

“But they said ‚ ‚ Cott on grows as high as a man in Arkansas . ‚ Then they

paid a man two dollars fifty cents for picking cotton here in Arkansaa while

they just paid about forty cents in Georgia. So iriy father came here . Times was good when we come here. The old man cleared five bales or cotton for himself his first year, and he raised his own co~m. He bought a pony and a cow and a breeding ho~ out of the first year‘s money. He died about thirty.-~ five years ago.

‘t~en I was coming along I did publie work after I became a grown man.

First year I made crops with him and cleared two bales for myself at twelve and a half cents a pound. The second year I hired out by the month at forty-4ive dollars per month and board. I had to buy my clothes of course. ~fter seven years I went to doing work as a millwright here in ~~rkansas. I stayed at that eighteen months. Then I steamboated.

	“We had a captain on that steamboat that never called any man by his li?3lne • We rolled cotton down the hill to the boat and loaded it on, and 1f

:roii weren‘t a good man, that cotton ~ot wet. I never wetted my cotton0 2u1 jus‘ the same, I heard what the others heard. One day after we had fInished loading, I thought I‘d tell him something. The men advised me not to. He was a rough man, and he carried a gu~n in his pocket and a gun in his shirt • I walked up to him and said, ‚ Captain, I don ‚ t know what your naine is, but I know you‘s a white man. I‘m a nigger, but I got a name jus‘ like yo1_~ have. My name‘s Webb. If you call YJebb, I‘ll corne jus‘ as quick as

I viill for any other name and a lot more willing. If you don‘ t want to sUy ~iebb, you 6811 jus‘ say ‘Let‘s so,“ and you‘ll find me r1~ht there.‘