SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Interviewer Miss Sallle C» Miller
Person interviewed Katie Rye, Clarlcaville, Arkansas
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n We lived in Greenbrier, Faulkner County, Arkansas* All stajld at
home and got along very well* We had enough to eat and wear* Mistress
was awful mean to us but we stajld with them until after the war* After the
war master moved us off to another place he had and my father farmed for
his self, master and his pa and zoa9 and mistress 9 pa and ma« They awful
good to us, but mistress was so high tempered she would get mad and whip
some of the slaves but she never whipped any of us* She worried so over
the loss of her slaves after the war she went crazy* We had two white
grand pas and grand mas« We colored children called them grandpa and ma
and uncle and aunt like the whit© children did and we didn f t know the
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difference* The slaves was only allowed bisguit on Christmas and some-
times on Sundays but we had beelTand plenty of honey and everything after
we moved from the big house* Mistress used to come down to see us an f
my mother would cook dinner for her and master* He was such a good man
and the best doctor in the State* He would come in and take the babies up
(mother had nine children) and get them to sleep for my mother* His
mother would come to the kitchen and ask for a good cup of coffee and
mother would make it for her# The master and his family were Northern
People and my mother was given to the mistress by her father and mother
when she married*
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