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	~	U~.~SLATi~ ST0RI~S	Pace One	~	82
		  ( Texas)


AI~A MILLF~R, 85, ihres with her daughter, Lucy Watkins, at 407 iv. fluff St., Ft. Worth, Texas. She was born ~.‚ slave in kentucky,
and was sold, with her parents,
to Mark Loyed, a. farmer in Missc~iri..
He later sold. Arma‘s rwther, before
Anna was old enough to remember her.
Then Anna was 8, her owner moved to
Palo Pinto, Texas.



	.	~~I~se now ‘bcv~tt 85 years oie, clats what de white folks tells me~ I‘se bo‘n in ~entuck‘. My maxt~my, pappy and I‘se sold. by our fu.st mareter to Ilarster Mark Loyed, who lived in ~issouri, He takes us to himts.fara. When Itse ‘bout eight years oie, Marster

	Loyed sold ix‘ s farm aůd cornes to Texas in covered wagons ax~d oxen. Re‘sbrang ail de slaves wid ~ don‘ taember much 1bout de trip, ~ause Itse sick wid de fever. Itse so bad, de ma.rster thinks I‘se

	go in‘ to die • One morn i, he come s and. I ooks at me arid. says ‚ ~ Dis nigger am too val‘abie to die. Vt‘ cl better doctor her. V We cw~ps

for six clays.

.~ “We comes to Palo Pinto Rnd dat‘s wild. country den, Plenty

:.	of Indiarts, but ae7 never trouble wetuns. My work, 1tw~.e helpin1 wid

de chores and. pi ok up de brush whar my pappy was &~.cie arm‘ de land.

~ .	When I gite bigger ‚ I ‚ se pi owed ‚ hoe cl, and done all de goin ‚ to de

‚~i:ti, I‘se helps card, spins and. cu‘ts de thread. We‘uns ma~ces all

~ .	.~ de cloth for to aa~es de clothes ‚ but we doz~i ‚ git 1 em • In de winter

we ~oe1 free ze to death. De a~t was de night work, after workin ~

	all ~t. day in de fiels

„S. •‚ H ~	~ ~ ~ ~De1~~ ~P! US. ~ lt~~ gi~s whipped lots a times. Marster w,*pa cLe aen and aissue wimps de women. Sometimes she wimps wid ~e


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