N]~E~J~CAY:	Fannie 1~oCay, 1720 NV~1 3rd Court, Miami, Florida was born on a plantation while her father and mother wére slaves; she claims her age is 73 years which would rna~ze her too young to remember “mancipati on“ but nevertheless she w~ slave property of her masteru~d could h~ive been sold or given away evøn at that tender ace. Her parents, too, “stayed on “quite a while after the “rnan~ cipE~tion“.


	Being one of those who “didn‘t have too much time to talk too muoh,“ her inaiA statement was:


	“‘Bout ail hi ken ‘member is dat hi hused go hout wid de old folks when cloy went out to pick cotton. Hi used to pick a little along.


	ni had plenty to eat and when we went away, my Massy had a little oalf that I like~i so well. I begged my ~assy to give it to me, but he never gave me none.“


	~A~TIET~O)~A$: Hattie Thomas was six years old when peace was deolared. $he was ‘borned‘ near Custer, Ga. on Bob Morris‘ plantation. At the tender age of five, she oan remeniber of helping to care for the other ohildren,~some of WhO:I were her ov;~i brothers aril children, for her mother kept her eight ~ohildren
-~~~ith her.	\


	Bob ~Aorris‘ plantati~n being a large one, the problem of feeding all t~e slaves and their children was, in itself, a large one. Hattie can well remember of ‘towing‘ the milk to the lon, wooden troughs for the children. Her mother and the other servants would throw bread crusts and oorn breads into the niilk troughs and when they would become well.‘soaked, all the little slave-ohildren would line up with their spoons.