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1A~K~NZA EZ~LL, Beaumont ‚ Texas,
		Negro ‚ was born ta 1850 on the	~
		plantation of Nid Lipso*b, i*
		Spart aaburg Ccnnty, South Caro
		iina, Lore*za is above th. ~ver
	~	age in intelligence and. reas~bsrs
		1~aiy incidents of slavery and Re-
		coastruction days. He case to
		Brshha~, Texai, i~ 1882, t~n& sev
		irai y.ars later Moved to B.auaont,
		wherehe lives in a litti. shack
		almost hidden by vinss and tr..s.



	u ~ plantation was es ~ east froM Pac out St at ion on Thickitt:,! Creek, la Spartanburg County, ta South Carolina. Dit near Little

and Big Pacoist Bivers o* de route to Ljaestone Springs, and it jes‘
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a ordinary plantati on wi th de ~ai* crops cott on and wheat.	~

	“I ‘long to de Ltpscombs and ~y aa~ma, Maria E~i1, she ‘long to ~ too. Old Ned. Lipecomb was ‘aoigst dsoLd4etcttizens of dat county. • I‘ s bora den on July 29th, in l9~(a*d I be 87 year old dis year. Levi ~1zeU, he my daddy, and. he ‘long to Landr~m ~z.ll, a Baptist pr.ach.r. Dat yottig ~asea and de old sassa, Joha ~zell, was de first Baptist preacher I erer be,rod of. He have three some, Lazdr~ and Judsc~ and 31750*. Brys~i have gif‘ for business and was right e~art of a orator.

	“Dey‘s fourteen niggere on de Lipscoab place, Dey‘ s seven of us chilies, ay aaaaa, three uacle and thre. amt and one man what wasa‘t no kin to us. • I was oldest of de chilien, and dey called Salit. and Carrie and Alte. ~nd Jabus and Coy and LaFate and Fbffus and Nelson.

	“Old Ned Lipecoab was one 4e best massa in de whole county. Tatt know dem old patterroll.rs ‚ dey call us ‚ Old. Ned‘ e fr.è nigg.rs ‚ ‚ and aho‘ hate us. D.~ cruel to us, ~cise dey think us have too good. a *usa.

On.	tia. dey• cotch ay uacle and beat hia *ost to death.