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INTERVIEW

ANN MATTHEWS
	‚	 719 9th Ave. South
		Nashville ‚ Tennessee


	“i WUZ bawn iii Murfreesboro on Stones River. I ~ how oie I ez en hit meks me tshamed ter tell peeple dat, but mah mammy wo~id hit me in de mouth w‘en lid ax how oie I wuz. She sayl WUZ jes‘ tryin‘ ter be grc~n.“

	“Mah mainn~t s naine wuz Frankie en ~ah daddy wuz Henry Ken Kannon. Don‘ meinbör much ‘bout mah ma~mniy ‘cept\she wuz a sho‘t fat Indian ‘oman wld a turrible tempah. She d‘ed, durint de war, wid black measies.t~

	“Mah daddy wuz part Indianen COU]d~‘t talk plain. W‘en he go ter de store he‘d hab ter put his han‘ on wtat bß want ter buy. He d‘ed eight months ‘fore de ~

	“Ourmarster en mi~sis wuz Landon en Sweenle Ken Karmon. Dey wuz good tér us, en we hadtn good things ter eat.“

	“1 member de Yankeeen Southern soldiers. One day me en mah young missis, en sum chiliuns Went up ter de road en w~ se?ed 5~yan~kee soldiers ktimin~, I cium‘ed on de fence, de
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urthurs run ‘way en iid. One ob de sokljers sezs ter me, ‘Lettie girl who wuz dat wid. you,‘ en I SeZS, ‘Hit wuz Miss Puss en sum chiliuna.‘ He iaug~ed en sezs, ‘You ez brave ai~t you?t“

	“Our missis let us go ter chuch. I I long ter de chuch Qb Christ.n

	“i ~ ob but one slave dat got lani er nothint w‘en freedum Wt~ ‘I ç lared. We ~ didni t git nuthin at freedum • Mah

daddy went back in de woods en built us a saplin house en