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LOUISA ADAMS


	t, My naine is Louisa Adams • I wuz bawned in Rockinghazn, Richmond County, North Carölina.. I wuz eight years old when the Yankees come through. I belonged to Marster Torn

A.	Covington, Sir. ~r mother wua named Easter, and my father ~z n~ed Jacob. We were aliCovingtons. No Sir, I dOntt know whur my mother and father come from. Solo.. man wuz brother number one, then Luke ‚ Josh, Stepheçi, Asbury . My sisters were Jane ‚ France s ‚ Wincy ‚ and I wuz nex~ • I tmembers grandmother . She wuz named Lovie Wall.

They brought her here from same place . ~r aunts were ~ named, one wuz named Nicey, and one wuz named Jane. I picked feed for the white folks. They sent many of the chillun to ‚ work at the salt mines ‚ where we went to git salt. My brother Soloman wuz sent to the salt mines.

Luke looked atter the sheep. He knocked down china berries
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for ‚ eni~ ~Dad and mammie had the ir own gardens ~ and hogs.

We were compelled to walk about at night to live. We were so hongry we were bound to steal or parish. This trait seems to b e handed down ~ from slavery days • Sometime s I thinks dis might be s o .) Our . food wuz bad . Marster worked us hard and gave us nuthin. We had to use what we made in the garden to eat . we also et our hogs . Our clothes were