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	~	Minnie Green
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L~innie is not an ex..slave, 1‘o.r ~the wa~ “jes walkin“‘ when the viar w~s over, Her parents were given their freedom in May bu.t stayed on i1~eith ~xd~e Green until mil, ai‘ter the wheat cuttinG. The ~arni1y raoved to a two story house ~‘ou~t Merivïether Road“ bu.t didn‘t ~et a1on~ so well. Minnie was hungry lots and came to town to ~t scraps of food. Vhen she was a “~God bi~g ~irlJt ~ihe carcie to town one day ~~rjth her hair full o:~ cukie-~bu.rrs, dressed. in her mother‘s ba$~ue looking for :rood, when she saw a man standing in front of a store eatin~~ an or~inße, $he wanted that peeling, No one kept their cows and. pies up and when the man threw the Dee1i11~ Ofl the ground a sow‘ ~rabbed it. Minnie chased the pig right down Hill Street, was hollering and rnakin€ plenty o1~ noise, vi~en a lady, “Mie‘ Mary Leeks“, cc.me out and asked her “what!s the matter?“ ‘1Rie~ht then and there I hired raysell‘ oi~it to L!i~s Lary, and £he raised me.“ Minnie IDIaye~ with ~.rhite children, went to the Ttwhite folk$“ Church, and ~d.1d not “as800iate with ni~er3“ antil ~he w~s ~i~own. Every summer they went to the Cauip Gro~nth~ £or tv~o weeks.. They took the children, Minnie for nurse, a stove, a cow and every~ thing they needed for that time.

She was nearly growxi beThre she went to a colored church

ax1~. “baptism‘“ and it fri~htened her to see aDeraon	~ ~