Oklahoma Vlrlters‘ Project
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slaves was my husbandts mammy.

	Then right away the whites come and. robbed. the place of every thing ~ they could haul off ‚ and run hi s mamu~y and. the o ther ni~gers off I Then she went ~id found. her boy, that vias my husband, and. he live with her until she died, jest before we is married.

	~Ve lived in Mississippi a long time, and then we hear about how they better to the Negroes up in the North, and we go up to Kansas, but they aintt no better there, an~ we come down to Indian Territory in the Creek Nation in 1898, jest as they getting in that Spanish War.

	~Te leased a little farm from the Creek Nation for $15 an acre, but when they give out the allotments we had to give it up. Then we rent 100 acres from some Indians close to Wagoner, and we farm it all with my family. We had enough to do lt tooI

	For children we had Jo)in and Joe, and Henry, and. Jim and. Robert and. Will that was big enough to work, and. then the girls big enough was Mary, Nellie, Izora, Dora, and the baby. Dora married Max Coroert. His people belonged to the Colberts that had Colbertts ~rossint on the Red River way before the War, and he was a freedman and go~ allotment.

	I lives with Dora now, and we is all happy, and. I dontt like to talk about the days of the slavery t ines ‚ ~ cause they never did mean no thing to me but misery, from the time I~ was eight years old.

	I never will forgive that white man foii not telling me I was free, and. not helping me to git back to my mammy and. pappyl Lots of white people done that. S