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	~L.SLA~TE STORI~ES	Page One
(Texas)


LOUIS LOVI~, 91, was born in Franklin, Louisiana, ~ slave of Donaltron Oaf rey, Wl~LO1fl LOtUS describes as a “leadin‘ lawyer and once Unit cd States Senat or. „ At the
-	start of the Civil War, Louis was sent to Texas with about ~OO other slaves to escape the Uy~~j~e invaders.“ Louis now I ives in Orange ‚ Te xas ‚ and says he spends most of h~S time sitting on the gallery. One hand shz~e s c onst nntly and his re ed.y voice is tremulous.





	“Well, I gu.ess I‘s Sbout 9]. year old. I ‘member when freedom come. I goes ap to reg‘stration de year I gits free. I walks up to o].d Doc Young and say, ~ I coiiie reg‘ st ~r for de vote. ‚ He say, ‘You t 00 ~OUfl~ tO vote. You ask vour missus. ‘~issus git de big book ‘bout six inch thick where 5h8 got all de births and deaths on dat place since she been raissus and she cive me a letter evin‘ I nineteen year old. t kep‘ dat letter till not so lone A~O and. our~s it by mistake, t caus e I can ‚ ~ r~ ad.

	“)~ve Love he was my daddy and Tildy Love was my mama~ My grandsnsma raise me, tho~igh. Mv massa‘ s n~zne Donaltron Cafrey and he statue st ~3nd in de court hous e square now . He was a leadin‘ lawyer and a United States senator. When Senator Gibs~n die massa he serve out he term. Young massa n~rne Donaltron Cafrey, junior, and ~e ktep de oig bank in New Orleans now.

	~	‘II never was sold. to nobody. I heared folks say my folks come from Kentu.cky, but lay mama born on Massa Cafrey‘ s place . He h~we de oig house, fine old house with galleries all ‘round and big lawns.
S	It‘s far back from de road, pushin‘ clost to a mile, I guess. He have

seven sugar plantation and after freedom come dey rents it out at