SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Int erviewer Mary D» Hudgins
Person interviewed Tom Robinson Aged 88
Home Lives with his son on outskirts of H°t Springs
As I entered Goldstein Grade School for
colored I passed an old fellow sitting on the
sidewalk* There was somthing of that venerable,
dignified, I*ve-been-a-slave look about him, so much
of it that I almost stopped to question him. Inside
I entered a classroom where a young woman was in
conference with a couple of sheepish youngsters who
had been kept in after school*
Did she know the - where**abouts of any
ex-slaves ? She beamed. Only the other day an old
man had appeared on the school grounds* She appealed
to her charges* Didn't they remember that she had
told them about him and about what slavery had meant.
Sheepish looks were gone* They were agog with interest*
Yes *um, they remembered. But none of the three
knew his neme or where to find him*