Some of my friends was justice of the peace and
constables.
"I been in Pine Bluff bout four years--till I got disabled to work.
"I been married five times. All dead but two. Don't know how many
chillun we had--have to go back and study over it.
"Some of the younger generation is out of reason. Ain't strict on
chillun now like the old folks was."
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed: Anna Washington, Clarendon, Arkansas
(Back of Mrs. Maynard's home in the alley)
Age: 77
"I've forgot who my mother's owner was. She was born in Virginia. She
was put on a block and sold. She was fifteen years old and she never
seen her mother again after she left her. Her master was George
Birdsong. He bought my papa too. They was onliest two he owned. He
wanted them both light so the children would be light for house girls
and waiting boys. Light colored folks sold for more money on the block.
"The boss man over grandpa and grandma in Virginia was John Glover. But
he was not their owner. My grandpa was about white. He said his owners
was good to him but now grandma had a pided back where she had been
whooped. Grandpa come down from the Washington slaves so my papa said.
That is the reason I holds to his name and my boy holds to it.
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