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	. EX~SLAT1~ STORIES	Page One
(Texas)


ANNIE LITTL:~, 81, was born a slave o-~ BUh &OO~?I~, in SpringSfield, Missouri. Her master
.	owned a plantation in Mississippi, and sent innies family there while she w~s a baby. ~inie now • lives in Mart, Texas.






	t; 1s first a baby ix~ Springfield. Dat in Missouri ~nd dert ~jn where ITs birthed in January, 1856. My da~d.y and me~nmy was Howard and ~nnie end dey ‘longed to MassaBill Gooden~ He have de plantation in Mi~sipp‘ ~nd send us dere while I*s still de Ii‘I baby. Dat am what d~y cal]. de Delta now, ;~xid de cotton so high I c].umb up in de trees to reach de top of de st al and ~ ~ o orn so hi~gh a man on he mule only have ~ e t op he

•hat showing.

	“If us ‘mind massa and missus, d~y good to us, but if d~ h~ids lazy axxd not work den de overseer whop den. • When dey x‘tn ‘way he sot de blood~ ha~inds on de~ and dey cltunb de tree • I ‚ s heaThd dem hounds bayin ‚ de nigger up a tree jes1 lots of times. Massa never sold none ~ family and we stays with him till h~ wife die and he clic, too.

	“In de cold days de women spin and. we~e de cloth on looms. I stands by ~id pick u~ de shuttle when dey fall. Us nt~gers all wore de clothes uiake on de spinnin1 wheel, but de white folks wore dresses from de store. Dey have to pay fifty and seventy-‘fiTe cents de yard for calico den.

.~	;.: ~ ~ ~1Den de wè come. I 1member how massa come borne on de f~irlough and w1~eri word. come he on de wer, us aU git ready for de big cel‘bration, Dey

d~e y.a~rlin‘ or hawg and mal us niggers cook foi‘ de big feast, Some‘

~ ~ be stay a week, we Jes‘ do nothin‘ buSt eat and. cook.

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