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EX-SLAVE STORLE~S

(Texas)

CLA~ISSA SCALES, 79 ‚ was born a slave o±~ William Vaughan, on his plantation at Plum Creek, T,~x~Lsv Clarissa in~rried when she w~s fifteen. She owns e small ~‘arm near Aus t in ‚ but lives with her son, Art2rnr, ai~ 1812 Cedar Ave., Austin.





	~rnxûy‘ s flCflle was Mary Va~hon and she was brung from Baton Rouge, what am o~~er in Louisiana, by our master. H~ went arid located on Plum Creek, clown in Haars County.

	ttM8lTî&V was a tall, heavy.set wom2n, rnore‘n six foot tall, She was

~	rnaid-doctor after freedom. Dat z~ieari she r~i~sed women at childbirth. sÎie allus t old me d.c l~ st thing she s~‘w when she left Baton R ouge was her mammy ~ On a big, wood block to be sold for a slave. Dat de last tir~e she ever saw her ma~ay. i~ram~r died ~bout fifty years ado. Sne was I ivin~ on a farm on Big W~. nut Creek, in Trpvis County. Daddy done die a year ‘ce±‘o‘ and she jes‘ grieves herself to death. Daddy was SLO1 funny lookint, ‘cause he wore long whiskers and what ~r~i calls a goatee. lie was field worker on (~C Vaugh~n plantation.

	‘1Master Vaughsn Was GOOd. and treated. us all ‘rigi~t. He was a great whit e in~xi and i‘ t have no over seer, Missy‘ s narn~ ~as Margaret, 2fld

she was good, toot

	“My j ob Was tendin ‚ fi ree ~nd d.‘ ]~g~ ‚ I ke~ fi re goint when d.c washin‘ be in‘ done. Dey~ had. plenty wood, but used. corn cobs for de fire, Dere a big hill corn cobs near de ~wash ket tie. In d.c eveni n1 I had t o brine in de hawgs, I had. a li ~l Ihoop I d~v dein wit~, a eight‘~plaited

~whide whoqp on de long etick It a purty sight to se~ dem hawgs go under
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