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	“My mother and father were bcr~i on the saine plantation and I di‘n‘t have

nothin‘ to do ‘sept play with the white ~hi1dren and have plenty to eat. My mother and father were field han‘s. I learned to talk from the white ohiidren.


	~4Ij~IE ~AIA.:~ Annie Gall, 1661 ~W 6th Court, Miami, Florida, was four years oLd when ~peaee oarne.*


	nI was borned on Faggott‘s plaoe near Greenville, Alabama. My mother, she worked for Faggott. He wuz her bossnian. ~en she‘d ~o out to de fiel‘s, I‘rnern..‘ bør I used to watch her, for somehow I wuz feared she would get away from me.


	~Now I ‘member dat jes ez good as ‘twas yesterday. I didn‘t do aiythlng.
I just runried ‘round.	-


	~~Ve just 1stayed on‘ after de‘‘L~anoipat~on‘. My mOther, she was hired theii. I ‚~ue~s I wuzn‘t ‘fraid ob her leaviri‘ after dat.‘


	JES~IEROWELL: Jessie Rowell, 331 W~il9th St., Miami, Florida was bora in Mississippi, between Fossburg and Heide1ber~, on the Gaddis plantation.


	‘My grandmother worked in be house ‚ but my mother worked in ihe field hoe— Ing or picking cotton or whatever there was to do. I was too little to work.


	leA:Ll that I c~n~ ‘member is, that I was j~St a little tot running ‘round, arid I would always watch for my mother to oome home. I was always glad to see her, for the day was long and I knew she‘d cook something for me to eat. I oan ‘member dat es good as ‘twas yestiday.


	“Ne ‘stayed on‘ after freedom. Mother was give wages then, but I don‘t know how much.‘


	Lr_JiiI~ Margaret ~îhite, 6606 18th Ave., Liberty City, Miami, Florida is one of those happy creatures who doesn‘t look as if she ever had a