SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Interviewer Mrs# Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed Emma Turner
330 W. Sixth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age 83
"Yes ma'am, I was born in slavery days* They never did tell me when I
was born but I was ten the seventh day of August the same year we was freed*
"No ma f am, I wasn f t born in Arkansas* I was born in Georgia* I sent
there and got my license to show my age* I was twenty years old when I
married*
"George Jones was my old master. But, Lawd, them folks is all dead
now* Old master and old missis, yes ma'am, all of f em dead*
"Fight f round us? No, they didn't fight there but they come through
there* Yes ma'am, they come through there* Oh, chile, they got horses
and mules*
"Used to give us the Confederate money* Wasn f t no good though* They
got the silver and gold* Confederate money was white on one side and green
on the other* Yes f m, they was Yankees*
"Oh, yes'am, old master was good to us* He didn't never marry* My
grandmother was the cook*
1 ^4y mother was born in Virginia* I heerd her talk of the Nat Turner
Rebellion but I never did see him*
"Our folks stayed right on after freedom and hired by the month* And
hired us children for our victuals and clothes*
"I stayed there till I was married* Then I come to Vicksburg,
Mississippi* Had nine children and all dead but two*
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