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EMML TAYLOR, 89, was born a slave of the Œreer family, In Mississippi. She ~nd her mother were sold. to a Texas man, whose name Emma has forgotten. Emma lives with one of her chl].d.ren, In Tyler, Texas.





	“My maw and paw I Ived In Mj 88 Is sippi ‚ and be]. on~ed to Marse Greer. Dat dere nar~ie, too. ~11 the slaves tooken dere master‘s name, t cause dey d~ t no use for a naine ‚ nohow,

	“De first thIns I tmembers Is followlnt my m~w in the cotton patch. She allus went ahead, picidn‘ cotton, and made a clean place with her sack drag~in1 on the ground. But de first work I ever done ~ wo.s feed. de chickens and geese and shell, corn to feed dem,

	“Us nigger chilien coulc1n~~t play with de white chilien. De worstest whippin‘ I ever ~ot was ftr playin‘ with a doll what beion~ed to one marse‘s chilien. I tmembers it yet ~td I ~intt never seed. a doll purty as dat doll was to tue. It was make out a corncob with arms and legs what moved and a real head, ~t th eyes and hair and mouth painted on. It had a dress out of silk cloth, jist like one ray mi~us weared when she went to meetin‘. Dat lI‘l gal done leave de doll under de tree, but missus found me pi~vin‘ with it and ~hIpped me hard.

‚	“We livecL in a cabin in de back field thind de big house, one room and a shed. room, where maw clone ail de cookin‘ for de whole family,-‘I

~.‚ had. threebrothers and three sisters, ail dead, I supposes. Dey ~Il ‚ older ~n what I was • We cooked on a fireplace, ~nd a big pot hanged on

poles ove r de ±~ire and de bread c ook ‚ on dat ftre in a skillet what was

made of twoplecesof ron, turn.‘up.aU ro~ind. Wep~ts d~‘e dough moue and turns de other one over it, den ‘buries it i~ de coals a ~ew Imnutes‘


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