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Interviewer Mrs* Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed Frank Reed
1004 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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"I was a little boy piekin* up chips and helpin
feed the hogs in slavery tines for old master* Name was
George Houston* That was in Alabama*
*I reckon I do remember George Houston* As far as I
know he was good to us* I remember when he died*
*0ur people stayed right there after freedom* My
mother was a Houston till she married*
*I reckon I do remember the paddyrollers* I
remember the hounds runnin' too* I never thought I
would remember that no more*
•They dldn 9 t get after me f cause I was too little*
It didn f t last long enough for f em to get after me*
"I'm sick and not able to help myself* I got ran
over by a wagon*
*I*m llvln f here with my daughter. Her husband is a
preacher and they got eight children* so you can *"»e*^*
how much they can do for me*
ours**
•One word of the white folks is worth a thousand of