SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed Mallndy Bobinson
8th Street, West Memphis, Arkansas
Age 61
"I was born in Wilkerson County,
Mississippi. My ma never was sold*
She said she was eleven years old
when peace was declared. Master
Sims was grandma's owner* Grand-
pa was never sold* He was born in
Mississippi* He was a mulatto man*
He was a man worked about the house
and grandma was a field woman* She
said she never was whooped but
worked mighty hard* They was good
to grandma* She lived in the quar-
ters* My parents b f Iong to the same
owner* But far as I ever knowed
they married long after freedom*
They was raised close to Woodville,
Mississippi**
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