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	5 ‚ — ~ ~ .~. e	EX~~:SLAVE STOBTh~5	.Pa~e One	‚‚
	.‚	(Texa5)


SARAH ALLEN was born a $laTê of
John ~nd Sally ~oodren, in the
- ~ ‚	Blue Ridge Mountai~ns of Virginia.
Â	Before the Civil War, her owners
H	~ ~k~‘	c~e to TexaB, locating near a
~b • .	small town then called. Preedor~i.
4~V	She ltv•s at 3322 Imtas St.,
ts	- . :~i Paso, Texas.




	~ ‚I i: was birthed ir~ time of bond~e ‚ You know, some people

.	aT e ashamed t o tell 1. t ‚ but I thank G~od I was ‚ li owed. to s ee theN times as well a.~ now. It~s a pretty hard story, how cruel sorne of the niarsters was, but 1 had the luck to be with good white people. But some I knew were put on the block ~nd sold. I tm~mber when they‘d corne to John ~oodren15 place to buy, but he not sell any. They‘d have cer~in days when theytd sell off the block and. they took chilien ‘way from mothers, screamin‘ for d.ere chilien.
	‚	ft I w:~s b irthed. in oie Vi rgin la in de Blue Ridge M~ntains.

.	When de white people come toTex~s, de cullud. people come with then~. Dat ‚ e be en a I ong time .

~	. H~ ~ was n~rned Ch~lotte, my paw Pa~ks Ad~z. He‘s a white n~an . I gue s~ ~ I‘ ni about e ightv s orne ye ars oie.

	“You ~ow, in sla~ezy times when dey had bad mareterß dey‘d run away, but we did.n‘ want to. ~4y ml~sus would see her people had. soaeth±ng good. tô eat every Su.n&ay mornin‘ . You had to mind. your rnis~.is

\	~ ~ nnd inarster ~nd yo~i be treated well. I think I was about twelve when ~ dey freed us and we stayed. with marater 1b~ut a year, then went to John~ Ecole‘ place and rented soue len‘. ~ We made two bale5 of cotton and. it
~. :~	~ was the first money we ever saw. ~ ~ .

	“Back when we lived with Marster Good.ren we had. big candy
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