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(?.xas)

8~RAE ASHI3Y, 93, was born in Kiesiesippi. She recall. her eq,eri.nc.s when sold. on ta.
bbock in lew Orleans, and on
a cotton plantation in ?sxas.
She now lives at Goodrich, Texas.





‘II ain‘t able to do nothiù‘ no more. I,e jus‘ pli~b give

ou.t and I stays her. by myself. My daughter, O.o~gia Grime, ehe u~sed to live with me but ehe‘ s been dead. fair year.

~I was born in Miss‘ippt and Massa Henry Thomas buy us

and bring ua here. E. a spec‘lator and. buys up lots of nigger.

~nd sells ‘em. Us family was sep‘rat.d. My two sisters and my papa was sold to a Man in Georgia. ~n dey pi~t me on a block and bid ai off. Dat in New Orleans and I scairb and cry, ~it dy put me up dare anyway. tiret dey takes me to Georgia and dey didn‘t sell me for a long spell. Massa Thomas he travel round and buy and sell ai~srs. U. stay in de spectlators 4rovs d. lang time.

	RAfter ‘while Uaese Mose Davis come fron Cold Spring, in Texai, end buys us. ~e was buyin‘ up litti. chillsn for hi chilien. Dat ‘bout fmir year befo1 de first war. I was 19 year old when de burst of fredoa comi in Jitne and I git turn leo...

	s ~ ~ workin‘ in d.. fi.ld den. Jus ‚ befo ‚ dat di old Massa he go off and ~iy more nigger.. Es go iast. Re on a boat ihat git stove up and he dii and n•ver corns °back: no mor•. Us never see him no mors.