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Grady County, Georgia, near Cairo in the 16th DIstrict.


	“The man what I belonged to was name Mr. Sacks. I~r ~other and father lived there. I was only about three years old when peace carne, but I remember when the Daddle rollers came there aitd whipped a man anä~ woman.


	‘tI was awi~u1 ‘fraid, for that was soinethin‘ I nevah see bef~ore. 1~7e • “stayed on“ but we left beCore I was old enou~1i to work, but I did work in the fields in ~iitche11 County. S


	t, I came to Mi aufl an d rai sed Z chi Idre n. I‘ rn stayl ng wi th my d außht er, but I‘m not able to v~rk iiiuch. I‘m too done pleyed out with old age.“


	~ ~ 36? N. W. 10th Street, Miami, Florida was born on Thigh Lee Bates‘ farm in Alabama in the country not~ very far from inJ.berry Beat.


	.	“!~~ mother and father lived on the serne plantation, but I was too j little to do more than tote water to the servants in the fields.


	“I saw Old Bates whip my mother once for leaving her finger print in the pone bread when she patted it down before she put it into the oven.


	“I remember seeing lundra, Oscar and Like Bates ~ off to war on three fine horses. I dont know whether tbey ever carne back or riot, for we moved that same day.


	S ~ NEIŒITEJT:	gave his address as 60th Street, Liberty City. He was only a baby when. freedom caine, but he too, “stayed on“ a long time afterward. S
He did no t know his real name ‚ but he was given Ms ~ssyt s natjie.