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	FEDERAL WRITERS‘ PROJECT
American Guid~e,(Negro Writez~s‘ Unit)
Jaokéonville, Florida
Pear 1 Randolph		Slave Interview
	Field Worker		August 18,. 1936
	Complete ~	~	John A . Simnia
	657 Words	.	Editor ~ ~
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	FrankBerry, living at 1614 West TwentySecond Stre et ‚ Jacksonvil le ‚ Florida, claims to be a grandson of Oeoeo].a, ~ last fighting chief of the Bern— mole tribe. Born in 1858 of a mother wbo was part o~ the human chattel belonging to one of the Hearnees of Alaohua County in Florida, he 8erved. variously during his life as a State and Federal Government contractor, United States Mareha]~ (1881), Registration Inspector (1879).

	Being only eight yearsof age when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, he remembers little of his life as a slave. The master was kind in an impersonal way but made no provision for his freedmen as did many other Southerners— usually in the form of land grants—~lthough he gave them their freedom as soon as the proclamation was issued.. Barry learned from hie elders that their master was a noted du~li~t and owned several fine pistols some of which have very bloody histories. .

	It was during the hectic days that followed the