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LIZZIE ~BAKER
~	424 Smith Street


	111 was born de las‘ year o‘ de surrender an‘c.ourse I don‘t remember seem‘ any Yankee soldiers, but I knows a plenty my mother and father tole me. I have neuritus, ant have béen unable to work any fer a year and fer seven years I couldn‘t do much.

	~w möther wus named Te e ny Mc Intir e and my father William Meintire . Mammy belonged to i~yant ~Tewkirk in Duplin County. Pap belonged to someone else, I don‘t know who.

	“Dey said dey worked from light till dark, and pap said dey beat him so bad he run away a lot o‘ times. Dey said de paterollers corne to whare dey wus havin‘ prayer meetint and beat tern.

	«rnammy said sometimes dey were fed well and others dey ~!most starved. Dey got biscuit once a week on Sun~ day. Dey eald dey went to de white folks‘s church. Dey said de preachers tole ‘em dey had to obey dere missus and~ marster . ~ mamy Said she didn‘t g o to no da~aces ‘cause she wus crippled. Some o‘ de help, a colored woman, stole something when she wus hongry~ ~ She put it off on motber ~ ~1 mi•ssus made mother wear trousers for a year to