410007	    INTERVIEW	6G
		 MILLIE ‘SIM~KINS
	~ ‘1BLACK MAMIE“

1004 10th Avenue, No.
	Naahville, Tennessee

.	~ I claims I‘s 109 ye‘ars oie en wuz bawn neah Winchester, I • Mah marster ~uz Boyd Sims en mab missis wuz Sarah

Ann Ewing Sims. Ma~ mami~y wus named Judy Ewing. en me.h daddy wuz Mos es Stephens en he wus “free bawn • ‚ fle wuz de marster‘ s stable boy en followed d~ races. He run ‘way ~en nebber kum back.

	Mali Lust missis wuz very ri ch. She had two slave ‚ omen ter ~. dress her eve‘y mawriin‘ eri~I brought her breakfust ter her on a

-.	~ silvah waitah. ~ She wuz nia‘ led three times, her second husband wuz Joe Carter en de third wuz Judgé Gork.. ~ ~
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.~ Jah fust thl,~7is sôld mekazà I~ wuzstubborn. She sent~me ter de “slave. yard“aat Nashville.. De yard wuz fil oh slaves. I stayed deretwo weeks 1fore mar5ter Simpson boughb me. I wuz~so1d ‘way~‘

~	fuiri mali husband erl I - nebber se~ d ‚ im ‘gin. I had one chile which I tuk wid me.

	De slave yard wuz on Cedar Street. A Mr. Chandler would bid de slaves off, but ‘fore dey started biddin‘ you had ter tek all ob

~e Clothes off en roll down de hill so dey could see dat you didn‘t

: hab no bones broken, er sores on yer. ( I wouldin‘ tek mine off). Ef ~ nobody bid on you, you wuz tuk ter de slave mart en sold. I wuz sold

.‚	dore. A bunch ob dem wuz sent ter Mississippi en dey had dere ankles fas‘end tergedder en dey had ter walk wUles de tradahs rid.
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