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Slave Interview	Page	2 •
Rachel A. Austin	FEC ‚
Jackeonviile1 Florida	.


nuree proved to be WParaonhe~ gm~ndmother. His mother told hirn afterwardB that the meeting of mother and. daughter was very jubilant, but silent and. pathetic, because neither could with safety show her pleasure in finding the other~ At the auction which was held a few days later,~ hie mother,Rachel, and. her two eons,. Solonion Augustus and her infant who was later to be known as “Parson,“ were purchased by A.J. Lane who had. previously bought “Parson‘s“ father, Willis, from a man named Doiphus of Albany, Georgia; thuewere husband and wife re-united. They were taken to Lane‘s plantation three miles outof Sparta, Georgia, in Hancock County. Mr. Lane ownéd 85 slaves and was known to be very kind. and consicl.erate.

	“Parson“ lived on the Lane plantation until he was eight years old, when he was sold to 1Lewis Ripley of Beaufort, South Caroflna, with whom he lived for. two years; he was then sold to Ed Tilirnan of Dallas, Texas; hestayed on the TilInian plantation for about a year and until he was purchased by John Troy of Union Springs, Alabania-. the richest slave-holdsr in Union Springe, Alabama; he remained with him uutil Emancipation. He recalls that during one of these sales about *800,00 was paid for hirn.

	He describes A.J. Lane as being a kind slave-holder who fed his slaves well arid whipped them but little.L~ll of his