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	Mary Minus Biddie, a&e one hundred live was born in Pensacola, Florida, l833~ and raised in Columbia GoLuity. She is married, and has several children. For her a&e she is exceptionally active, being able to wash ~nd do her house work. With optimism she looks iorward to many more years of~ life. Her h€~alth is excellent.


	Having srent thirty-two years of ~ life as a slave skie relates ~J vividly some of her experiences.


	Her m~ster Lanoaster Jaxnison was a very kind man and never mis‘.. treated his slaves. He was a man of mediocre means, and instead of havi~ a large plantation as waa usual in those days, he ran a boarding house, the revenue therefrom furnishing him substance for a livelihood. Fie had a small farm from which fresa produce ~as obtained to supply the needs of his lod&ers. Mary‘s lamily were his only slttvea. The family eorisjsted o~ her mother, father, brother and a sister, The ohildred called theold master ‘Fa‘ and their Lather ~Pappy.‘ The master never resented this appell~tion, and took it; in 6ood humor• Many travelers Stopped at his boardin~ house;,,Mary‘s mother did the cooking, ber father “tended~ the farm, and Mary, her brother and sister, did chores about the p1~ee. There was a large one-room house built in the yard in which the taraily lived. Her father had a separate garden in which he raised his o~vri produce, also a smokehouse where the family meats were kept.


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