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‘:	BETTY ISARROW, 90 ‚ now 1 lying with a sOn on a farm in Moser Valley, a Negro settlement ten miles northeast of Fort Worth on Texas Higiaway No~ 15, was born a slave to Mr. Alex Clark, plantat ion owner in Patrick Co., Virginia,





	“Its glad to tell wkiat I knows, but yous have to ‘scuse me, ‘ca~i~e my •collection ai~ bad. I just den‘ 1Lember much, but l‘s bo‘ri on Masta Alex Clark‘s plantation in Patrick County, Virginny, on June 28th, l84‘?~ Dat1s w1~at n~y mammy toll ii~~ You see, we cullud folks have no sc~3oolin ~ dem days and I can‘ t read or wr ite • I flas to depen ‚ on whal; folks tells me,

	LiMasta Clark has rlgnt smart plantation in oie Virginny and he owns ‘bout twenty other slaves dat wo‘ked dc big place. He had three girls and four boys and wrien l~s a crille wetune played togedder and wetuns ‘tacxied to each otner E~ll our lives,

	“In mammy‘s family dere was five boys and four girls~ I don‘ ‘member my pappy. When l‘s ‘bout ten, l‘s set to work, peddalin‘ ‘rs~ind di house,

	“b~t three years ‘fore de war marster soi1 his plantation fer to go to Ps:x:ae. I ~members de day we‘uns started in tXiree covered

wagons, all leaded. ‘Twas celebration day for us chillun. We travels rrem daylight to dark, ‘cept to feed. and. ris1 de mules at noon. I don‘ ~ how l.ng we was on de way, but ‘twas long time and ‘twarn‘t no

celebration t iwards de last ~ A~ft er while we comes to Sherm~n ‚ in Texas, t. o~ir new ~
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