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TINA JOIThSON
Ex-~S1ave Story
An interview with Tina Johnson 85, 5. Bloodworth Street,

Raleigh.

	III wu.z bawned in RiChn1Oflt~ georgia ‘round. eightyfive years ago . I~r m~iirny wuz named Cas s ant my father, dat is my step~father wuz named John Curtis. I got de name o±~ Johnson frum ‘ I Johnson ‚ I doan know who n~y ~ real daddy wuz.

	“Iv~y mamn~r b elonged ter a Mis‘ Berry who wuz pretty good ter her, but we ain‘t had nothin‘ but de. coarsest food ant clothes. I had. one brother naine Dennis. an~ ~ an‘ him wucked wid de others in de cotton patch.

	‘tWe had done moved nigh Augusta when Sherman c oine, an‘ Sherman‘s sister wuz a-~livin‘ in Augusta. Dat‘s de reason dat Sherman missed us, case he ain‘t wantint ter “sturb his sister none.

	“I ain‘t seed nary aYankee, but fer two days an‘ nights I 1~yard de guns an‘ an ‚ felt de earth akin ~ lak a earth3juake wuz hittin‘ it. De air wuz dark an‘ de clouds hunged low, de whole ~ earth seemed ter be fui of powder ant it nostrils seemed lak dey would bust wid de sting of it.