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"I am seventy-three years old* There was two boys and two girls of us* My aunts and uncles raised me* My mother died when I was little and fore that my papa went to the army and never come home* They said he got killed or (lied — they didn f t know* My parents belong to Berry Bruce* He had a family I heard em say* He lived at Louisville, Mississippi* "I recollect the Ku Klux* I heard em talk a whole lot about em* One time they rode round our house and through the hall of our house* Yes ma'am, it scared us so bad it most paralyzed us all* They went on* We didn't know what they wanted* We never did find out* ft I don't vote* I never voted in my life* I don't recken I ever will* "I have been a hard worker all my life* I farmed* I loaded and un- loaded on a steamboat with my family farmin 1 in the country* The boat I run on went from Memphis to New Orleans* "My family farmed at Batesville in the country out from there* For a long time I made staves with the Sweeds* They was good workers* We would make 1,000, then load the barge and send or take them to Vicksburg* I got my board and $1 a day* tf The present conditions for the cotton farmer has been better this year than last* When it gets cold and no work, makes it hard on old men# I got no job in view for the winter* "I would like to have a cow if I could raise the money to get one* I been tryin' to figure out how to get us a cow to help out* I can't make it* "I suffer all the time* I can't sit stillf I can't sleep I suffer so wid rheumatism* Nobody knows how I do suffer* My general health is fine* "This President has sure been merciful to the poor and aged. Surely he will be greatly rewarded hereafter*" 3, 20?
«JK>* : "~4U Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed Robert Solomon, Des Are, Arkansas Age_73_ My father was African. JE was born in Atlanta. My mother was a Cherokee Indian. Her name was Alice Gemage. I was born in 1864. I don't know where I was born - think it was in the Territory - my father stole my mother one night. He couldn't understand them and he was afraid of her people. He went back to Savannah after so long a time and they was in Florida when I first seen any of her people• When I got up any size I asked my father all about him and my mother marrying. He said he knowed her bout two year fore they married. They sorter courted by signs - my mother learned me her language and it was natural fur me to speak my father's tongue. I talked for them. She was bout fifteen when she run away. I don't know if a preacher ever did marry em or not. My father said she was just so pretty he couldn't help lovih her. He kept makii^ signs and she made signs. I liked my Gramma Gemage. She couldn't understand much. We all went to the Indian Territory from Florida and Georgia. That's how I come out hare. I don't remember the Kii KLux. I remember hearing ma and gramma talk bout the way they tried to get way from em. My father was a farmer till freedom. He farmed around here and at Pine Bluff* He died at West Point. My mother and step-mother both died at Pine Bluff* 208
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SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of
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INFORMANTS Quinn, Doc 1, ,5,7,8 She
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,'.30893 gOUSLQHB SUBJECTS Name of
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(bOr & ^ t / - « - FOLKLORE 3IBJ3C
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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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Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson Pe
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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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30515 Interviewer Miss Irene Robert
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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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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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from all over de country* Of course
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"After my father bought his own far
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STATE— Arkansas NAiE OF WORKER—
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■*• 11G 9c * ? him in the Missi
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J(:3i9 118 Interviewer Mary p* Hudf
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Emma Sanderson Hudglns 120 and chai
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g Emma Sanderson H^dgins 12*3 The f
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30430 .^ 124 Interviewer Mima Irene
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3. me a month with her and doctored
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"I seen a whole gang of Ku KLuxes h
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Usually take about eight and ten in
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STATE—" Arkansas NiJS OF WORKER
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Interviewer: 1 s Comment This woman
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;.i0135 Interviewer Miss Irene Hobe
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*I ain't never been to school much*
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and set out playing* Some got in th
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Dis nigger dropped in his tracks la
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30648 #718 148 Form A - Circumstanc
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ferfc of Interview (Unedited} #718
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"She was sick only one week and the
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■#J* 30760 154 Interviewer Miss I
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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
Page 209 and 210: *I went to school after the war wha
Page 211: "Papa said the Yankees made all the
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Page 245 and 246: Old man Simpson sent for my father
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Page 249 and 250: Opinions *I can't say much along th
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Page 253 and 254: Soldiers "My father said once that
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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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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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She would make them by hand because
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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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*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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