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	.	ALICE ELA~D~R
	s	Age88y-rs. . s
Oklahoma City, Okla.



	I was 88 years old the 15th of March. I was bo rn in 1849 ‚ at Jackson Parish, Louisiana. My motherts name was ilary Marlow, and father‘s Henry

~	Larlow.

	.	I cantt remer~ber verymuch tbout slavery tcause I was awful small, but I cè~n x‘eñieriber that my mo ~ s mas ter ‚ Colonel Threff d.i ed. ‚ and. ~ my. ~o ther, her husband, and us three chillun was handed. down to Colonel Thre~f‘s~poor .. kin folks. Colonel Threff owned about two or three hund.red head. of niggers, and all of tem was tributed. to his poor kin. Ooh wee! I~e sho‘ had. jest a lot of them too! Master Joe Threff, one of h~.s ooor kin‘, took my mother, her husband, and. three of us chillun from Louisiana to the Miss±ss±ppi Line.

	Dovm there we lived in a one~room log hut, and. slept on homemade rail bed. steads with cotton, and. sometimes straw, mostly straw sutaners and. cotton winners. I worked round. the house and. looked after de smaller clii hun ~ I mean my mo ~ s chillun . 1~o stly we ate yeller meal co rn bread and. sorghutii malasses. I ate posswns when we coii.ld get tem, but jest Couldn‘t

~	stand rabbit meat. D1d~tt 1~ow there was any Christmas or holidays in dem



~ ‚.	I cantt ~nembuh nothing tbout no churches in~ slavery. I was a sinner

~	e2ld. loved to dance. I remembiñi I was on the floor one night dancing and I

~	had four daughters on the floor with meand. my son was playing de music —

~	tIia~t got me! I jeststopped. and said I wöuldn~t etit another ~tep and. I

~j( b&v~en1 t.	~ ni a member o±~ the Baptist Cimrah and. been for 25 ~r 30 years.


~: ~ j:L]~ed. 1c~se I wanted to be good. 1cause I was an awful s1nn~‘

~4 ~ ~k We ~ia4 ~ e~v~se~v ~a~k on O~1one1 ThDsf~ ~ s pla4tatio~t and. my
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