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"I remember one time the white folks had some stock tied out, and I know
my sister's little boy didn't know no better and he showed the Yankees
where they was.
"I remember when they said the people was free, but our folks stayed
right on there--I don't know how many years--'cause my mother thought a
heap of her old missis, Penny.
"I went to school after freedom and learned how to read and write and
figger. I worked in the field till I got disabled. I never did wash and
iron and cook for the white folks.
"I was fifteen--somewhere in there--when I married and I'm the mother of
twelve children.
"I have lived in Thomas, West Virginia; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania;
Cumberland, Maryland; Milliken, Louisiana; and Birmingham, Alabama. I
just lived in all them places following my children around.
"I fell through a trestle in Birmingham and injured myself comin' from
church.
"I think the people is gettin' terrible now. You think they're gettin'
better? I think they're gettin' wuss.
"I got a book here called 'Uncle Tom' and I hates to read it sometimes
'cause the people suffered so.
"I don't think old master had any overseers. Miss Julia wouldn't 'low
any of her people to be beat."
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Evans Warrior
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