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(Texas)


SABAH FORD, whose ~ge is prob].eTnatical, but who says, 111s been here for a long time,“ lives
in a small t~ott~e at 3151 C1~r
St., Houston, Texas. Born on the
.	Kit Patton plantation near West Columbia, Texas, Aunt Sarah was probably about fifteen years old wh~en eiaanicipated, She had eleven ch~1cIren, the first born during the storm of 1875, at East Col~ u&1a, in wMch Sarah‘s iriother ~ father both perished.



“Law me, ~ou wants me t. talk ‘bout slave times, and you is

cotched i~e ‘fore Ps h‘~c1 my coffee dis iQornin‘, hut when you gits o~d

as I is, talk is ‘~bout all you can do, so tscuse me whilst. I pu~ts de

coffee pot on de ftre and tell ~rou whet I can.
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~‚ ~	“Now, what I tel:~ ~ is d~e truth, tcause I onl:7 toli one little

lie in my whole: li~‘e ~n.çi I got cotched in it and got whipped both ways. Oh, Lawd, I sho‘ never won‘t for~t dat, marna sho‘ was mad. Hama sends ~ne ove•~ to Sally Ann, the cow wom~fl, to get SOIQC milk and onions. I never did like to borrow, so I cornes back with the ~±lk and tell mama Sally Ann say sh‘ ain‘t ~ot no onions for no ifricans, flat ir~a3ce mai~na taad and she goes tell dat Sally Ann S0inethin‘ . She bru~ng back de onions a~nd ~ ‘You, Sar~.h, I‘ll lam ~rou not to tell no lie.~ She sho‘ give Inc a hidint1

	tV!\TQw I tells you ‘bout d~ plantation what I~s born on, Y~u aU

knows where west Columbia is at? ~ ~Vell, dat ‚ s right where I ~ s born, on Massa Kit Patton‘s Plantation, dey calls it de Eogg place now.“(Owned by children of Goy, Will Hogg.)

	“Mamma and para belon~:s to Massa Kit and mama born there, too, Folkc~ called h~r ‘Little Jane,‘ ~ she no bigger‘n nothing.
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