SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Interviewer. Miss lEgjne Robertson
Person interviewed
Arzella Stoallwood
Hazeii B.1
Age 60
1 *!)*, Green Grove, Arkansas
Doesn't know
exact age
"I was born about eight miles from Williston, South Carolina. After
freedom my mother married lee Bellinger and she had six children* He died
when I was real small• My mother was named Hester llcCrary* Old Master
McCrary bought grandma and my mother in Virginia* One sister my mother
never did run across after freedoasu She was older and sold to other people*
I think at freedom my mother left and I think grandma did too* l$y grandpa
was half Indian* but I never did see him to remember what he looked like*
Our young master is a doctor* He waited on my mother before she died*
Grandma was blind and she lived with us* Our young master may still be
living* Old mistress was named Sylvaaia and she sent for my mother to come
wait on her when she got sick to die* I think they had pretty fair treat**
ment there« My mother was to be a house girl and cook* I think grandma
was a cook and field woman both*
"I heard them say the white folks took them to church to learn to pray,
then they didn f t allow them to pray for freedom* But I don f t think they
wanted freedom* After they was set free they died up so scand*lous#
Grandma said they had to work harder* My mother brought a good price
because she was real light color and sharp to learn* She had six children
&&d we was all darker than she was a whole lots* She and grandma was both
good on giving advice* Seem like they could see how things would turn out
every time*
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