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ADEL I~1E MARSHALL ‚ 3514
Bastrop St., Houston, Texas, was born a slave somewhere in South Carolina. She was bought b~ Capt.
Bre~a~t and. brougI~t to Texas while
st ill a baby, so she remembers
nothing about her family and has no record. of her age. Adeline i~ evidently very old.





	s Yes ‚ suli ‚ Adeline Marshall am my nan~e ‚ all right ‚ ~it folks e round here j ea ‚ calle me ‚ Grandma.‘

	“Lawd have mercy, I‘s been in dis here land too 1on~, too 1on~, and jes‘ ain‘t no ‘count no more for nothin‘. I got aistrie2 in my bones and jes‘ look at what I‘s got on my feet! Dem‘s jes‘ rags, dat‘s all, rags • an‘ t wear nothtn1 ela On ‚ eza ‚ dey lmrts s o. Dat ‚ s what de red russet shoei what we wears In slave timei done ——jes‘ pizen ~%e feeti.

	“Lawd, Law~3., dat shot ‘bRd~ times black folke jes ~ raise up like ~at t le in de atable ‚ only Cap ‚ n Brevard ‚ ho what o~n me ‚ treat8 he hose es and~ cattle better‘n he do he nigger~.

	ft Don‘ t know nothin‘ ‚ bout myself ‚ cept on Cap‘ n rd‘ B place clown on Oyster Creek. He has de plantation dare ‚ what de only place t knows t 111 Its freedomed.. He a~y~ I‘ s a South Car‘ lina nigger what he bo~xght back dore and brung to Texas when I jes‘ a baby. I reckon it de truth, ‘cau~se I ain‘t never lalowed no aama or papa, neither one.

	“Cap‘n h. a bait man, and he drivers hard, too, ail de time whippin‘ and atroppln‘ de nigger. to make dem work harder. Didn‘t make no dtff‘erence to Cap‘n how little ~roa ii, crœ goes ~mt to de field moi‘ soon‘s you can walk, De drivers don‘ t use de bullwhip on de lit tie niggers ‚ but dey pi aye d.e switch on u~s what eting de hide plenty. Sometimes dey pute a n1gger~ in

:: ~ •~ ~ d• stocke and leaves dm two or three day., don‘t give dem nothtn5 to eat
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