Slave Interv‘iew	.
AUred Farrell		~	~ Pa~. ~4	‚~-~
Mànticello, ~La.			p~c ‚•
nutted to do $0. .	. ~


	After she was relea$ed from slavery Matilda came ~ her parent8 to the Monticello section, where theKnoxeB be~ cz~ne paid house 8ervants. The parenta took an active part in politic$ in the section, and Matilda was sent t~ Bchool.

	Thi te teachers operated . the school e at first, and were later rep1~ced by Negro teachers. Churches were opened with Negro ministers in the pulpits, and other neceasities of con~nunity life eventually came to the vicinity.

~	Matilda still lives in one of the ear1ierhom~s of her parents in the area, now de8cribed a8 ‘Rooster.Town‘ by it~3 re$idents. The section is ~in the eastern part of Mont~

Cello.