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A~N lE OSBORNE ‚ 81 ‚ was boris	. lu At1a~ta, Georgia, a slave
of Tom Bias. She was ~ refugeed‘ to Louisiana by the Bias fwnily, before the Civil War, and remain-j cd. there with them for two years after she was freed, She has lived in Marshall, Texas, eir~ce
1869.





	“Yes, euh, I~s a G‘eorgia nigger. I ‘longed to }4assa Tom Bias, and he lived in Atlanta. I couldn‘t state jus‘ how old I is, but I knows I was elevsn years old. when we come to Marshall, and thats in 1869.

	“Mammy was Li zzie and. ~ born in Atlanta, and I‘ s heared her s~y she was cive to Torn Bias to settle a dept her owner owed. I don‘t know nothin‘ ‘bout my daddy, ‘cspthe am named Tom Biae, and that am massa‘s nan~e. So I guess h‘~‘s my daddy. But I had two brothers, prank and Jases, and I don‘t know if Massa Bias was they daddyor not,

	“Massa Bias ±‘.f~ge.s me and my marnray to Mansfield, in Louisiana whei ~ s ju. t a . They corne in wa+gons and was two in ontlis on the way ‚ and the big bo~rs and insu rode ho~sback, but ail the niggere big ‚ nou~h had to walk. Massa Bias opsnes a farm twelve mile frora Mansfield. My mammy plowed and hoed and chopped and p icked C ot t on and ‘ as good as the menfoiks . I allue worked in the houss, nussin the white chillen and spinnin‘ and housework. Me and my brother, Pra1k, slip‘ in MISSy Bias house on a pallet. No matter how cold it was we slep on that pallet without no cover, in front the fireplace.

	“Old man Tom never give us no money and half ~ ‚ nough clothes . I had one dress the year round, two lengths of cloth sewed together, and I didn‘t knew nothin‘ ‘bout playin‘ neither. 1±‘ 1 made too ‘auch fuss they put ins under the bed, My white folks didn‘t teach us nothi~‘ ‘cept how they could

~	the whip on us . I had to put on a knit t in ‚ of et ki‘ s in the ru‘‘
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