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	ifILLIAM )LATWEWS, 89, was born a slave on the Adams plantation, in Tr~nklia Parish, Louisiana. He was driver of the family cai‘riege . After William was freed he supported nigseif by hiring out as a field hand ~nd by making and selling baskets. Since 1931 he has lived with his daughter, Sarah Col— burn, at 8l2~ 41st St., Galveston, Texas.




	“Course I can ‘lect ‘bout slavery. I is old. and my eyesight am gone, but I can still ‘lect, I ain‘t never forgit it.

	W1(y sassa, old Buck Adams, could out—mean de debbil heself.

Re sho‘ hard. hard and sneaky as slippery ellum. Old Mary Mams, he wife ‚ was ~ as hard as he was, Sometimes I used t o wonder how dere chilien ever stood ~ Old Buck Adams brung my m~sy and daddy fron South Car‘lina to work in de fields and my daddyts name was Economy I~at hews and my mammy ‚ s name Phoebe, Simmons was her naae ‘fore she marx~y. I is born on old Buck‘s place, on Dec-ember 25th, in 1848. Dat plantat ton was in ?rarikl In Parish, some— where rou~nd Monroe ‚ in Loui s lana.

	“Me and Bill Adams raised together. ~Nhen he shoot a deer I ru~n home like greased llghtnin‘ and git de boss. Sometimes hed. shoot a big hawg and I‘d skin him~

	“When I gt big ‘no~gh :i ‘d. drive dere carriage. I was what dey calls de twait in~ boy. t I sot in dat buggy and wait till dey come out of where dey was, and den driv I~t off. I wasn‘t ‘lowed to git out and visit round with de other slaves. No, euh, I bad to set dere

and wait.