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Interviewer Samuel S* Taylor
Person interviewed Augustus Robinson
2500 W* Tenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Age 78
"I was born in Calhoun County, Arkansas in I860, January 15th* I am
going according to what my daddy told me and nothing else* That is all I
could do*
How the Children Were Fed
"My grandmother on my mother 1 s side said when I was a little fellow ♦
that she was a cook and that she would bring stuff up to the cabin where the
little niggers were locked up and feed them through the crack* She would
hide it underneath her apron* She wasn't supposed to do it* All the little
niggers were kept in one house when the old folks were working in the field*
There were six or seven of us*
Sold
"My daddy was a white man, my master* His wife was so mean to me that
ny master sold rae to keep her from beating me and kicking me and knocking me
'round* She would have killed me if she could have got the chance* ]_Sa Asold
ft9 to a preacher who raised me as though I were his own son* Whenever he
sat down to the table to eat, I sat down* He made no difference at all* He
raised me in El Dorado, Arkansas* His name was James Goodwin* He sent me
to school too* /