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POLLY COLBEBT	.

Age 8~3 yrs,

Oolbert, Ok1ahoi~


	I am now living on de forty—acre farm dat de Government give me and lt is just about three miles from my old. home o~i Master Holi~es Colbert1a plantation where I lived. when I was a slave.

	Lawsy me, times sure has changed since slavery timesl IJaybe I notice It more since I been living here all de time ‚ but deret s farms ~ 1~O~iid here dat Itve seen grown timber cleared off of twice during my lifetime. Dis land was first cleared up and worked by niggers wh~i dey was slaves. After de War nobody work€~d lt and. it just naturslly growed up again wid. all sorts of trees. Later, white folks cleared~ it up again and took grown trees off~r~ it and now dey are still cultivating it but it is most ~re out now.

Some of it wont t even sprout peas. Dis saine land used to grow corn without

1~ar&ly any wo rk but I t sure won ‚ t do I t now.

	I reckon it was on account of de rich land dat us niggers dat was owned by Indians didn1 t have to work so haH as dey did in de old. states, but I think dat Indian masters was just naturally kinder any way, leastways nilne was.

	My ir~ther, Lisa, was owned by de Colbert family and my father, Tony, was owned by de Love family. When Master Holmes and. Miss Betty Love was married dey fathers give niy father and mother to dem for a wedding gift. I was born at Tishomingo and we moved to de farm on Bed. River seon after dat and I been here ever since. I ~ a sister a~d a brother, but I alntt seen dein since den.