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	~ ~	A~e 77 yrs.
j‘ .	Oklahoma City, Okia.


	I was born December 22, 1860 in Sumner County, Tennessee. My mother ~ I mean mammy, tcause what did we know 1bout mother and. mamma. Master and Mistress macle dey chillun call all nigger women, ~‘3la~k Mammy.~ Jest as I was saying my mammy was named ~‘1illie ~kins and. my ~aDpy was named Isaac Garrett. My sisters and. brothers was Prank, Susie and. ~ō1lie. They is all in ]~ashville, Tennessee right now. They lived in log houses. I tmember my gr~~a~y and when he died. I allus slept in the Big House in a cradle wid. white babies.

	Vie all the time wore cotton dresses and. we weaved our own cloth, The boys jest wore shirts. Some wore shoes, and I shot did. I kin see tem now as they measured. my feets to gīt my shoes. ~e had. doctors to wait on us iffen we got sick and. ailing. V~e wore asafedida to keep all diseases offen us.

	When a ni~:ger man got ready to marry, he go and. tell his master that they was a woma~i on sech and. sech a farm that he‘d lak to have. Iffen master give his resent, then he go and asic her master and. tiffen he say yes, well, they jest jump the broomstick. Mens could jest see their wives on Sadday nite.

	~	They laid peoples tcross barrels and whuppeci. tem ~īid bull whups till the blood come. They‘d half feed. tern and. niggers‘d steal food. and cook all night. The things we was forced to do then the whites is doing of their own free will now. You gotta reap jest what you sow tcause the Good Book says it,

	They used to bid nigg‘ers off. and then load tern on wagons and take ~ to cotton farms to work. .1 never seen no cotton till I come heah, Peoples make big miration tbout girls having babies at Il years old. And you better have them whitefoiks some babies iffen you didntt wanta be s‘old. Though a funny thing to me is, iffen a nigger woman had. a bab~ on the boat on the way