Interviewer	~Iri.Bornice Bowden
	Person interviewed	Dou~1aa We11~
	~	14:19 Alabama Street, Pine Bluff, Àrkenaa~ Age  83






	nu se just a kid ‚ bout six or seven when the war started and ‚ bout ten or twelve when it eeasted.

	“I‘se born in MiBBlSßippl on Mies Nancy Davis‘ plantation. Old J‘eff Davis was some relation.

	“My brother J~ef~ jined the Yankees but I never seen none till peace was declared.

	“I heered the old folks talkin‘ and they said they was fightin‘ to keep the people slaves.

	“I ‘member old mistress, Miss Nancy. She was old when I was a kid. She had a big, large plantation. She had a lot of hands and big quarter houses. Oh, I ‘member you could go three miles this way and three miles that way. Oh, she had a big plantation. I reckon it was mighty near big as this town. I ‘member they used to take the cotton and hide it in the woods. I guess it was to keep the Yankees from gettin‘ it.

	“I lived in the quarters with my father and mother and we stayed there after the war —— long ti~ after the war. I stayed there till I ~ot to be grown. I continued there. I ‘member her house and yard. Had a big yard.

	“I can read some. Learned it at Miss Nancy Davis‘ plantation after the war. They had a little place where they had school • I went to church some a long time ago.