SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Interviewer Samuel S. Taylor
Person interviewed Peggy Sloan
2450 Howard Street > Little Rockt Arkansas
Aae About 80« or more Occupation Farming
isn't it?
"I was born in Arkansas in TUlip, in Dallas County I think it is,
"Charlotte Evans was mother* s name and my father f s name was Lige Evans.
Gran*daddy David was my mother f s father, and Gheyney was my mother's mother.
"Mr. Johnnie Stunner was the name of my young master, and the old man
was Mr. Judge Sumner. The old people are all dead now« Mr* Judge Sumner
was Johnnie Sumner f s father. Ms and Mr. Johnnie suckled together* Mr*
Johnnie came to Fordyce they say looking for the old slaves. I didn f t know
about it then* I never would know him now. That is been so long ago* I
sure would like to see f im.
n My mother ain f t told me much about herself in slave times* She was a
nurse. She lived in a log cabin* You know they had cabins for all of them*
Hie colored lived in log houses. The white people had good houses. Them
houses was warmer than these what they got now#
n lly grandma could cut a man f s frock-tail coat* These young people
don't know no thin f f bout that. Grandma was a milliner. She could make any-
thing you used a needle to make*
n Lige Svans was the name my father took after the surrender. He wasn't
darned that before the surrender—in the olden times* My mother had fifteen
children,, She was the largest woman you ever seen. She weighed four hundred
Pound* She was young Master Johnnie's nurse• Mr* Johnnie said he wanted to
c °nie and see me* I heard he lives way on the other side of Argenta somewheres*