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tr The owners was tryin 1 to hide the colored people* Our
white folks took some of us clear out in Texas to keep the Yan-
kees from gettin 1 em. Miss Liza was Miss Netta ! s daughter and
she was mean as her old daddy. She said, f 0h, yes, you little
devils, you thought you was goin* to he free I 1 She had a good
brother though. He wanted to swap a girl for me so I could be
back here with my mammy, but Miss Liza wouldn't turn me loose.
No sir, she wouldn ! t.
"After freedom I hired out - cooked, milked cows and
washed and ironed.
rf I went back to Mississippi and stayed with my father.
Old Henry Rails sold my father fore we come to Arkansas.
n I never been married. I could have married, but I
didn T t. I don ! t know hardly why.
my father.
"I been makin ? my own livin 1 pretty much since I left
"Biggest majority of younger generation looks like they
tryin* to get a education and tryin 1 to make a livin 1 with their
brain without usin f their hands. But I'd rather use my hands -
co3e I would.
for it.
M I went to school some after the war, but I had to pay
!, I been disabled bout five or six years. Got to have
somethin 1 to take us away, I guess."
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