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Oklahoma friters‘ Project	Ex—Slaves 192
KIZIAH LOVE
	.	~Age93
~	 J1t	Colbert, Ok].a.
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T‘	Lawd. help US, I sho1 remembers all about slavery times for I was a grown woman, married and. had. one baby when de ~ar done broke out. That was a sorry t line for some poor black folks but I gues s Mast er prank Co].bert ~ s nig~ers was about as well off as the best of tem. I can recollect things that happened way back better than I can things that happen now. Fui~n~. ain‘t it?

	Prank Colbert, a full blood Choctaw Indian, was my owner. He owned my mother but I don‘t remember much about my father. He died when I was a little youngtxn. ~y Mistresst name was Julie Colbert. She and Master Frank was de best folks that ever lived. All the niggers loved Master Frank and. knowed~jest what he wanted done and they tried their best to do it, too.

I married Isom Love, a slave of Sam Love, another full-blood Indian
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that lived on~jinin~ farm. We lived on Master Franks farm and IsoYwent back

and. forth to work fer his master and I worked ever day fer mine. I don~t ‘spect we could of done that way iffen we hadn~t of had Indian masters. They let us do a lot Like we pleased. jest so we got our work done and. d1dI1~t run off.

	Old Master Prank never worked us hard and. we had. plenty of good. food to eat. He never did like to put us under white overseers and never tried it but once. A white man come thro~ugh bere and. stopped ~verni~ht. He looked

•round the farm and. told. Master Prank that he wasntt gittlng half what he ought to out of his rich land.. He said he could take his bunch of hands and. double his amount of corn and. cotton.

	Ma~ter J~‘ank told. him that he . never used. whit e overseers ‚ that he had~ one‘nigger that bossed around.some when he clidittt do it hisseif. He also