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Interviewer Mrs* Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed Dora Hichard
3301 W* 14th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Aae 76
*I was born in South Carolina and I was my mother 1 s baby chile *
"Jacob Foster was our old master and he sold my mother over in east
Tennessee * Now of cose she wasn f t put upon the block and sold* She was
the house woman and spin and wove* After they sold her my father run off•
Oh sure, they caught him and I know old mistress said, f Now, Jacob, if you
want to go where Lydia is, you can go* 1 So they sold him near her*
*I stayed with the Fosters till peace was declared and ever 1 thing was
declared free* Then my father come after me*
*I can just sketch things* I try to forget it* My mother and father
was pretty agreeable when they was set free#
"In Tennessee we stayed at the foot of Lookout Mountain and I can
remember see in 1 the cannon balls*
n Here f s the way I want to tell you* Some of the white people are as
good to the colored people as they could be and some of em are mean* B$y own
folks do so bad I*m ashamed of em*
*So many of the colored of the South have emigrated to the North* I
have lived there and I don f t know why I f m here now*
"Some of my color don f t like that about the Jim Crow Law, but I say if
they furnish us a nice comfortable coach I would rather be with my own
people. And I don f t care to go to the white folks 1 church*
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