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30804 Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed Victoria Sims, Helena, Arkansas Aê 76 "I was born in Limestone County, Alabama* It was on a river * Where I v/as born they called it Elks Mouth* Our owners was Frank Martin and Liza Martin* They raised papa* Their daughter aired (heired) him* Her name was Miss (Mrs*) Betty Hansey* Papa f s name was Ed Martin* I stood on a stool and churned for papa f s young mistress* The churn was tall as I was* I loved milk so good and they had plenty of it—all kinds* Soon as ever I get through, they take up the butter* I f d set f round till they got it worked up so I could get a piece of bread and fresh butter and a big cup of that fresh milk* They always fixed it for me* "Mama was Minthy Martin* She cooked on another place* She was a nurse« Her papa belong to one person and her mother to somebody else* Mama was Linthy Bridgeforth but I don't have her owner*s name* I guess she was sold* I heard her say the Bridgeforth 1 s was good to her* Some white man whooped on her once* I never heard her say much about it* Papa f s owners was good to him* They was crazy about him* I knowed papa's owners the best and I lived there heap the most* I was born a slave but I don't know who I belong toa I T ve studied that over myself* I used to go back to see papa f s owners. They owned lots of slaves and lots of land* Papa done a lot of dif- ferent things* He fed and farmed and cleaned off the yards and slopped the Pi&s* He done idiat they said do, well as I can recollect* I wasn't with mama ^ch till after freedom* Mama said her ishite folks was treated mighty mean 161
during the War* Once the soldiers come and mama was so scared she took the baby and run got in the cellar» They ihrowed out everything they had to 8at, They took off barrels of things to eat and left them on starvation* One soldier come one time and wanted mama to go to the camps* She was scared not togo, scared he f d shoot her down* axe told him she f d go the next day soon as she could get up her things and tell her folks she had gone* He agreed to that* Soon as he left she and some other young women on the place put out to the cane brakes and caves* She said they nearly starved* The white folks sent them baskets of victuals several times* Mama said she had some pretty beads sh$ wore* Somebody had made her a present of them* She loved f enu I think she said they was red* Mama's mistress told her to hide her beads, the soldiers would take them* She hid them up in the loft of their house on a nail* One day a gang come scouting and they ruiamaged the whole house and place* When the soldiers left she thought about her beads and went to see and they was gone* She cried and cried about them* That was before she went to the canebrakes* "When freedom come on, the owners told them they was free* They didn't leave and then they made a way for them to stay on* They stayed on* "I was grown when we come to this state but we lived in Tennessee a few years* Mama had had nine children by that time* All was dead, but us two girls and my brother* We come to Arkansas with our parents* We heard the lend was new and rich* I wasn't married then* "I've worked hard in the field all my life till last year or so* I still do work* "Times is tough here I tell you* I get a little help, six dollars* "Some of the young folks won't work, seme not able to work* If any- body saving a thing I don f t hear about it* 11 *• 162
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SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of
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,'.30893 gOUSLQHB SUBJECTS Name of
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I 'member one time tho* when he cha
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tr The owners was tryin 1 to hide t
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I was fifteen years old vixen we co
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»Our white folks took us to Texas
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"Mother said I had three older brot
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Interviewer Mrs* Bernice Bowden Per
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Mother "My mother was born a Goodma
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"One old log house there used to be
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"We were savages when we came over
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In aftermath of Beeves 1 story is f
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tell my mother. A girl I was raised
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n lity mother used to tell me how t
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"Younger generation ain f t near li
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"We chillun had nothing to do wid c
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30806 Interviewer Miss Irene Robert
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"'Ihey kept hounds* Colonel Radford
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Freedom ♦•The soldiers come and
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y herself in a house on the place*
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"The Ku Klux never pestered us* I h
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n I been farmin* all my life till I
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'l Visited by P&ther b^ ••When
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Later, it changed its name to the M
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Another teacher entered the room, N
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»|fhere was I horn, ma*am ? Why it
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T oft Robinson $ how I felt. »You
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Tom Robinson 8 gg \\ It was awful h
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i,y ) Interviewer Miss Irene Robert
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n It wouldn't do no more good to vo
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She say some nights when they campe
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He was the only one kept the box«
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50635 #680 gg Interviewer Samuel S*
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My cousin was the one had to go out
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Family "I am the mother of fifteen
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30502 80 Interviewer Miss Irene Rob
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! 30461 Interviewer Miss Irene Robe
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.50 92 Interviewer Mrs* Bernice Bow
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Interviewer Samuel S» Taylor Perso
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Her husband is dead. We had ten chi
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-2- the war. I know I must have "be
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theirselves. They didn't have "butt
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-6- Wood pressure keeps me from rem
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"My mother was a field hand in busy
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"They had a battle at Lawrence ♦
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"I never seen times like this* Sin
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Page 119 and 120: STATE— Arkansas NAiE OF WORKER—
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Page 147 and 148: *I ain't never been to school much*
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Page 173 and 174: "I was my raama f s seventh girl, a
Page 175 and 176: 30824 Interviewer. Miss lEgjne Robe
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Page 181 and 182: STATS— Arkansas KA1.1E OF W03KEB
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Page 187 and 188: Interviewer Pernella Anderson Perso
Page 189 and 190: They taught me to do carpenter work
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Page 207 and 208: Marriage "I married in 1879* My fat
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Interviewer Mrs* Bernice Bowden Per
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Interviewer . Mrs* Bernice Bowden P
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80459 a 6 Interviewer Miss Irene Ro
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30751 • c8? Interviewer Mrs* Bern
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30467 ooo Interviewer Miss Irene Ro
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fore the darkies and turning them l
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^ 30313 Interviewer Beulah Sherwood
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There have always been separate sch
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had been accustomed to enjoy. I rem
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I do not like the trend of amusemen
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oO(>^0 #761 Interviewer Samuel S»
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k&i 938 Interviewer Miss Irene Robe
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Old man Simpson sent for my father
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My stepmother carried me over to Br
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Opinions *I can't say much along th
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Ou >uo^6 #68i 246 Interviewer Samue
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Soldiers "My father said once that
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and all the men were off that day b
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30832 Interviewer Miss Irene Bobert
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30769 ^ ' 254 u K Interviewer Miss
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'The Old Time Religion 1 is the onl
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Ihey said they might steal me* Afte
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"Old man Bullocks had about eight o
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You never saw how much cotton was g
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they would steal anything they want
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"It is so about the pigeons at Pige
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n I f ve always done farmin 1 . Tha
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"The day they fit on Stone River in
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Good Masters *The Adamses were good
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ior the Pacific Express Company und
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"Henry Powell was jailer here once.
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30K07 Interviewer Miss Irene Robert
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30508 ~° w Interviewer Miss Irene
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quit. Both them soon livin' wid som
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"I don 9 t know nuthin v f bout the
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Some woman out here in Arkansas rec
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The riding boss would come round ab
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so that everything would be ready w
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"I married the second year I came t
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Interviewer Mrs* Berniee Bowden Per
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and we never did get nothin'* USy f
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y V 30U9: Interviewer Sanaa! 8. Tay
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She would make them by hand because
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30749 A % \ Interviewer Mrs* Bernic
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0758 Interviewer Miss Irene Roberts
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I can see big changes taking place
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"My mother f s name was Susanna Bri
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and they got out and went on their
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Personal Occupations *I used to wor
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"When I was a child, patching and d
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Itofcerviewer »Samael S* Ufaylor P
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Early Days n I was little nhen my m
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Batrollers n Me and old lady Eford
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and she told me to go on to my moth
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3007 Ovr+rs, Ark. OH) SLAVE STORIES
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\* ? People talk bout dis garablin
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80656 Interviewer Samuel S* Taylor
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We was from Sunday night to Sunday
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I don*t reckon pa would ever have r
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and a mule* "Who was go in* to give
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and he was dead for twenty-five min
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"There was a colored man there that
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for the field. They didn't allow th
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7 " 352 back several times and trie
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El Dorado District oUOvi4 FOLKLORE
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Unole James Tubbs. ^Û Fokes would
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•The Yankees had their headquarte
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30819 Interviewer Mrs# Bernice Bowd
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*Younger generation? Now you done a
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He was born a slave in northern Mis
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made of the same material as an old
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of Nat Turner, Dick Berry, and Milt
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Seabe Tuttle -2~ *We found us a cab
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