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LiAZ1QU.~ ~3ANCQ was born a slave of Mrs. Louisa Green, in C o].uinbia, South Car:lina, on Febru.ary 10, 1349. Short1y~ after Mazique was freed, he e ru j S t e d in the army ~nc1 was sent v~ith the Tenth Cavalry to San A~nge1o, thenFort Concho, Texas, After Mazique 1~,ft the arrn‘r he became well-known as a chef, and worked for several large hotels. Maziqu~ us~ little dialect. Then asked where M~ zique is ‚ his young wife says, ‘In his office,“ arid upon inqu.lry as to the location of this o~‘fice, she replies mirth~ fully, !On de river,“ for since he is t ~o old to work, M~zi~ue spends most of h~s tinie fishing.



“i~~:y mistress owned ~ beautiful hoin~ and three hundred twenty acres of

land in the edge of GolurrIbia, in South Carolina, just back of the ~tate house.

Her nani~ was Mrs. Louisa Green ~nd she was a widow lady. That‘s where I was born, out when her neph~~w, Dr. Edward Pleinming, married Miss Dean, I wa~ given to hirn for a wedding present, and so was my mother and her other chfldren.

I was a very small boy then, and when ~ was ten Dr. Fie!Pmin~ gave me to his cri~p1~cl mother.-~in—]aw for a foot boy. She got crippled in a ninaway accident,

when her husband was killed. He had two fine horses, fiery and spirited as could ~e hai. He called them Ash and Dash, and one day he and his wife were

out driving and. the horses ran the carriage into ~ bi~ pine tree ‚ and M~. Deain was killed inst~~tly, and ~trs. Dean couI~n‘t ever help herself again. I waited on her. I had a good bed and food ~nd was let to earn ten cent shin plasters.

	“When the war was over she called up her five families of slaves and told us we could go or stay. Some went and SOTQ~ stayed. I Was z~lways an ad-‘ venturer, want thg to see and learn things ‚ so I left and went back to m~ mother with Mrs0 Flemming.
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