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	~ ~i	Ex~..slave Stories	~ One
		(Texas)
	.~ .	JOS1~PHWE~ RYL~S ‚ known to the
		colored, people as ~‘Mama Honey“,
		Was born a slave of James Sultry,
		G~alveston insurance a~gent~ She
		does not knoW her ace. She lives
		in Galv~~ston, Tex~sb




	“Sho, I‘m JosepMne Ryles, only everyon‘~ ‘round here calls ~ae ‘M2;na Hon~:r‘ ~md I ‘most for~t r~y n~iîie till you says it right den. Honey, I‘ll be ~iad to tell ~ou all I ‘~ne&~r ‘bout slavery, but it ain‘t much, for rn~, mind ain‘t so good no more. Sometimes I can‘t ‘member nothin‘ a..t~ll. Itin too old. I don‘t know how old, but me .~nd dat Gulf got here ‘boutde same time, I reckon,

	“I‘m borned in G~alv~ston and Ja~n~s Sultry owns my mother arid she de only slave what he b~ve. He have a kind of big house on Church St and my mother done de housework and cookin‘ till she sold in de country, I wIshes ~rou ~~~1d‘v~ talked to her, she knowed. all tbout slavery, and she come from I~ashville to Mobi1~ arid den to1Texas. Her n~me ME;7 Alexander and my dar~dy‘s name Matt fllii~ms and. ~ Schwoebel own him.

	“Den us sold. to Er. Snow whet livein Polk county. Us ~its sold right he~‘e in Galveston without gwine no pl~.ce, my mother and nie and my

li‘l brother. My daddy couldn‘t f~O with us and I ain‘t never seed him .‚ t~8 in. Mr. Snow 1i~‘eout in ~e country and have a big place ~nd a lot of

field hands and us live In cab~ns.

t~j~y mother was de cook for de white folks and rriy li‘l brother,


Cherl±e Evans, WRS ~ie water toter in de fields. Re brang water in de bucket ~nd give de hands a drink.