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S~ARLIN ABNWINE, 94, wae born a slave t o Albertus Arnwine ‚ near Jaciceonville, Texas, who died.
when Steaz‘lin was se yen or e i~ht. He was bo~tght by John Moseley, of Ib~sk, Téxas, who made Stearlin
a howeboy, and was very k1X4 to him. He now lives about six ~i1es west of Jacksonville.






	“I ~vas bo‘ n ‚ fôrs de war ‚ in 1853 ‚ r ight ~iear the hers ~ town, on Gii.m Creek. My ma~way be1cn~ed to Massa Libertue Arnwine, and he waan ~ ever aarrie&. Re owned. four woi~t~ i~ i~ajng~v~, bit, my grandmother, Gracie, and my Aunt Winnie and Ai~nt Mary. He didII1 own ~ay niWr mes, ~ cept the chifle ~ of these women. Grendiaa lived In de ho~iee with Massa Lrnwine ~ ~nd the rest of ~is lived in cabine in de ya‘&. My n~imny come fxxa Men~hte but I done 1a~ow

whar my p~py come from. He was Ike Lane, I has three half brothers,

~ .	~nd their naines le Joe and Will and John Sohot, and. two sisters called Polly and Rosie,

“Massa Ârnwine died ‘fore de war ami he ma~1e a will eM it gave ai]. he owned. to the~, women he owned, and Jedge Jowell promised massa on his deathbed. he wa~iid talcs us to de free country, but he dUn‘ • He took us to hie place • to work for hii for ‘boet two years and the women never did get that 900 acres of 1~tnd Massa Arn~ine willed t otem, I don.‘ know who got it ‚ but they dIdn ‚ . I ~.owi I et ill has a share in that i~nd, but it t~3~es mosey to ~it it in cou‘t.

	“When war broke I feU into the hen‘s of Meesa John ~oseley

~	~ : ~ ~ at Th~sk. They broi~ht the dogs to róun ‚ us up from the fiel‘ s whar we was Woitin~, I was the only one of my fam‘ly to go to ‚assa John


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