Andrew Moss-‘ex-~s1ave.	*Page~4~	~‚


Did you know tliat a white woman shot de first cannon dat was ever fired in de / state o Georgia? She wa~ e yankee~o1one1‘s wife,dey say, namedMiss ~nna,I

dunno the rest o her naine. She wants to be de first to fire a cannon she say, befo
to set the negroes free . Dat was ~ ‚ de war ‚ begin. De roar of dat cannon

was in folkes ears for more~ri five days an& nights. „

-- .~	Uncle Andrew gave a little grunt as he lifted himself out of ‘nie chair. His little frame see~ied lost in the broa~bou1dered lumber jacket t~i:i~t he wore. He hcd laid aside the paper sack from which he had been eatin~,when the visitor came, and. removed an old stocking cap from his head. Whenthe visitor s~~ested that he keep lt on, as he might crtch cold he rer~1ied,“I dont humor myself none.“ The sunlight fell upon his head and shoulders as he stood, to steady himself on his feet.Traces of his ancestry of Indien blood,-~one of his grandfathers was a Cherokee indian,— were evident in bis features. His skin is jet—blaek,but his forehead high arid. his nose straight, with nostrils only slightly full. there was dignity in his bearing and beauty in his face,with its halo of cotton—white hair and beard,cut short and neatly parted in the middle of his chin.

	Walking about the roorn,he called the visitoTs attention to family por— traits on thè walls.Some were colored cra~ons, and. a few~re €n1ar~ed sna~— shots. Proudly he pointed to the photograph of‘ a hi~e—sized Negro man,apparently

~	in his thirties, and said,“He was our first coinins‘ Reckon he took after his great grandd~c1dy, vtho was eight feet tall and wéighed twe-hundred. ana fifty

pounds. That rnàn‘s arms was so long, when dey hung down by his side, his fingers was below his kneès. ~iis grandfather was free-~born.My father,Dave i~os~, he was sold three tithe~4Te bed twenty~five children. But he,had. two wives. As I aforesaid, . folks ~ïd~It always marry in dem days,jes took u~ wid one another.

~	~43P~ mother ~was hIs t~itle~~‘wife. ~r her, hÉ jes~had rae thid my two full-~brothers

an one sister My mother died two years after ~4e wer ~y father cive ‘y L sister to my gr~andmother.Jes give ~ er to lê~.N