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	t, I was born in Alabama in 1852 ‚ tri Txscaloos a aM my mammy ‚ s naine was Hannah, but I don‘t know ~y pappy‘s name. When I was still pretty little my brother ~iid uncle and awtt ~ixic1 mother was sold. and. ~e with oem.

“Dr. )*assie brung us to Texas in an OXcart but ~y sister sta~r with the old. mistress and that the last I ever seen my She was four year old. then..

	“After we reaches Texas we lives on a great big place, somewhere ‚ round Lynchburg and Dr. Massie have two girls and I sleeps on the foot of they bed. They nice to me, they spoil me, tu fac‘. I plays with the white gale and they feeds me fr~ they tables and. in the eyenj~‘ my ~anmy t a~ces me down to cl. beyøu end wash my face and put me on a clean dress.

“My mammy cook for the white folks and they treats us both one gal I knowed was ‘bout 8 or 9 end she run away from her swim de Trinity River and it was winter and her feste freezes. dis gal and puts her fests in the fire to thaw ‚~‚ and The law ~sey you could tek. slaves ‚ way froet sich a man, so
Mfl~TI~~ MARIA MILLER, 1404 39th St., Galveston, Texas, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1852.
She has forgotten her first mas~ ter‘ s name • but was sold while very ya.~ng to Dr. Massie, of Lyuchburg, Texas. The j ~*i~r~ey to Texas took: three months by oxcart. After the Civil War Mintie went to Houston and stayed. with an old. colored. wom~ whose former master had. given her a house. Later she went to Galveston, where she has worked. for one family 24 years.
had to s istsr.
fin., but master and Es cotches burnt I em.