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ROSAPNNA YRAZI&R was born a ilave on the Prazier plantation In Mies‘. issippi. She does riot re~iieinber her masters given name, nor does eh. know hex‘ age, although frog her memories of various events during theCivtl War, she believes sh• is close to ninet7, at Isast.
Rosanna is bltnd. and. bedridden, and is cared for by friends in a littli house in Pear Orchard Negro Settlsi&ent, in J.e~usont, Texas.




	5My mamisy was a freeborn woman nemed Tiny Frazier and she conie

from a free country. She was on her way to school when dey etoled her, ihen she de young gal. De spec‘lator gang etoled her and brwtg her and sold her in Red River, in Mississippi. Missy Mary, she buy her. Missy Mary married den to one ~an named Pool and she have two boys call Josh and~ll. After dat man die, she marry Marss Frazier.

	$$ILyr c1~y name Jerry Th.~cI,n and after I ‚ s born they brtn~s ~»

all t o Texas ‚ but my daddy bel ong t O de Neylands ‚ so we loses hia. My white folks noves to a big plantation closi to Woodville, in Tyler County, snd Marse Frazier have de store and plenty of stock. Re come first from Georgia.

	~‘All us little chilien, black and white, play togsd.der and Max‘se Frazier, he rate, us. His chilien cell Sis and Texana and Robert and. John, Marse Frazier h• tre~ us nice and de other white folks calls U?~~ ‘trie nt~gere‘, and. wouldn~t ‘low us on dire p~acee. Dey ‘fraid den niggere git dissatisfy with dey own treatment. Sho‘s you born, iften one of us gi t round den plant at ions ‚ dey jus1 cut us to pieces with de whip.

Saine of dem white folks sho‘ was mean, and day work de niggers a].l dey

in de aw~ and oet dein wi th de whip ~ and sho ‚ done ~ em up bad. D~ on

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