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	.	INTERVIEW
	.	   PATSY H~CDE.
		 504 9th Averrn~e N,
		Nashville ‚ Tenne8 see


	“•Dunn o how o le I e z • I wuz b awn I n s lave ry e n bi longs ter de Brown family. M9.h~ Missis W~Z Missis Jean R. Brown en she wuz kin ter Abraham Lincoln en I useter y‘ar dein talkiri‘ ‘bout ~iiîi livin‘ in a log cabin en w‘en he dt~ed she had her house draped in black. Marster Brown wuz also good ter his slaves. De Missis promus Marster Brown on his de‘th bed nebber ter letu$ be whiip‘d en she kep her wud. Sum ob de oberseer~ on urt‘]aur plantations would tie de slaves~ ter a zt:akß en.gib dem agood whu~ptin fersuinp‘indey ought nôt ter
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“AIJ. cul‘ed peeple wore cotton goods en de younger boys

~ .	run ‘round in der shurt tails. Mali Missis nit ail de white CLhiI1U~ stockin‘ en $he made me~uin. I had ter hold de‘yarn

on ~ah hansw‘eri she wuz nittin‘ . I rneiabérs one time I wuz keepin‘ flies off de table usin‘ a bunch ob peacock feathers en I went ter sleep standin‘upen she tale me ter go backt~r de kitchen.“ “I went en finish rnah nap.“

“One.day oie Uncle Eii~k woke Marster Brown fum his

:. atter-noon napte1li.n‘~ ‘~imdat de prettiest men dat I ever seed • Wuz pa s s in‘ by on de z‘ oa4 . He wen t t er de w inder en s a id ‚ „ Go od

: ~ ~wd, hitts dem damn Yankees.“ Mah white folks had a pretty