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241-Anna Baker ‚ Ex..slave ‚ Monroe County
FEC
Mrs. Richard KoIb
Rewrite ‚ Pauline Loveless
Edited, Clara i~. Stokes
		ANNA BAKER
	~	Aberdeen, Mississippi


	anna Baker, 80-year old ex-slave, is tall and well built. She is what the Negroes term a ~h1gh brown. „ Her high forehead and prominent cheek bones indicate that there is a sti‘ain of other than the pure African in her blood. She is in fair health.

	“Lemme see how old I is. Well ‚ I tells you jus‘ lak I tol‘ dat Home Loan man ~b‘hat was ~iere las‘ week. I ‘members a pow‘fuJ. lot ‘bout slavery times an‘ ‘bout ‘rore surrender. I know I was a right smart s i:ze den ‚ so ‚ s ‚ cording t o dat I ni~is ‚ be e rouii‘ ‚ bout eighty year old. I amt aho‘ ‘bout dat an‘ I don‘t want to tell no untruth. I know

I was right smart size ‘rore de surrender, as I was a-sayin‘, ‘cause I

‘meniiere Marster comin‘ down de road. past de house. When I‘d see ‘im ‘way off I~‘ d run to de gate an.‘ start singin‘ dis song to ‚ im :
		‘Here come de mexster, root toot tooZ
	.~. .	Here come Marster, nil‘ my way .
		Howdy, Marster, howdy doZ
		What you gwine a~bring prom t own today?‘

Oat would sos‘ nigh tickle him to death an‘ he‘d say, ~Loos~a(dat was hi& pet name for me) what you went today? ‚ I‘ d say ‚ ‚ Bring me s ~e ‚

~	goobers ‚ or a doU ‚ or some stick candy ‚ or anything. ~ MAn‘ you Can bet 70‘ bottom dollar he‘d always bring me somp‘n‘. ~
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