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Slave Interview	Page 2
Viola B. Muse.	~EC
Jacksonville, Florida


and. receiving the care whióh could only be excelled by an educated mother.

	~	Jimmié and. Lou Bedell were thei~amea Of the m~n and wife who saw the nčed of having a Negro girl come into their home as one In ‘the family‘ and at the same time be assured of a good andefficient servant in years to come.

.	When Lrene wa~o1d enough, she • became the ~ of the Bedeil baby and when the family left Savannah, Georgia to oome to Jacksonville, they brought Irene with th~.

.	Although Irene was just about six years old when the Civil War ended, she has vivid recollection of happenings during slavery. Some of the incidents which happened were told her by her slave associates after slavery ended and some of them she remembers herself.

	T;To incidente which she considers caused respect for slaves by their masters and finally the Emancipation by Abraham Lincoln she telle in this order,

	The first event tells of a young, strong healthy Negro woman who knew her work and did. it well.1 She would ~rab up t wo bags o f guana ( fer t I li z er ) and. to te ‚ em at one t ime ‚ ~ aal d Irene, and was never found shirking her work. The overseer on the plantation, was very hard. on the slaves and practiced striking them across the back with a whip when he wanted to spur them on to do more work,