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INTERVIEW

CECELIA CHAPPEL

705 AllIson Street

Nashville, Tenn.


	“I‘se bawn In Marshall Coui~ty, Tennessee. I‘m de olest ob ten chilluns en I‘se 102 ya‘re oie. I feels lak I‘se bin ‘yer‘longer dan dat. Mah mammy wuz brought ter Nashville ez~ sold ter suiri peeple dat tuck her ter Mississippi ter live.“

	“Mah Marster en Missus wuz named Bob en Nancy Lord. Eve:‘y slave had ter say Mj~~ug e~ Marster en also ter de white babies. I still says hit, en ef I kurn ter yo do‘r, I r~ebber kums in ‘till youax me. Lots ob mah folks seze ter me~dat I ez too ole fash‘on en I seze I don‘ keer I wuz raised wid manners en too oie ter change.“

	“Our Marster gib us good food eri clothes. 1 wuz l‘arnt how ter nit, weav, sew en spirh On rainy days wé wuz ~ib a certain tmo~flt ob weavin‘ ter do en had ter git hit dox~‘. I dunno how terread er rite. De white folks difint

‘low us ter ltarn nuthin‘. I declar‘ you bettuh rot git

kotch wid apapah in you han‘. Ef I had half a chance lak you ehilluris hab, I‘d go ter bed wid mah books.“

~	“Our Marster ‘lowed us ter go ter chuch~ I went

bar ‘foot en had a rag tied trom~ inah haid en mah dress .kurn up ter mah ‘r~ees. Dat preacher-man would git up dere en