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(Texas) ‚

PATSY SŒJTHwELL, 83, was born
in Jaeper Co., Texai. Sh~ hae live& Ort or near the old plan. tation all hei‘ ltfe~ Her mas-e ter was Bill Trailor.






	“My name Patsy Ssuthwell and I lives at Rock Hill. I been lt~in~ 0* dat plantation all my life, but not allus in the very same place. I think* U~ house was move arid ‚ nether builded.

	“My pappy was John Redd. and. he ‘longed to Bill Trailor and he brwi~ here fr~a Virginny. Mammy‘ s name Rose Redd. and she a yafler nigger, come from South Carolina and maybe she white and. Indians too. My brothers ca].] Dennis ‚ George ‚ Willi am,~ and Charle s and dey all dead.

	“We all live i* the quarters mrid massa a tol‘able good one t~jderjng others what out and slashes bad. Pappv and maimiy wox~ in

the field and dey send pappy and he sons off six months at the time, over to Alexandria, to maLce salt.

	“My brothers hunt all the time and brung in deer and wild turkey ‚ ~ • we has lit s t o eat • ~e has butt er and milk and honey and pappy allush~~e he li‘l garden patch.

	~We wears slip homespun dress make iutten cloth from us ls~. I ~e~er have shoes and us has mi Sunday clothes. Massa was t•l‘ably gi.d. to the old f•lks and not se mean to the chilien. He wa.*‘t n• barbarian like sime what whip the slaves every Monday mornin‘ beTh‘ dey starts to work,

	0Massa plai~tatien have fifteen hunnerd acre in it and he