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	Interiiewer	Misa Ir.n. Robertaon	-
	PS1!80fl interviewed	Peter &~own~ Helena, ArIcp~a.
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	*1 was born on the Woodlawn ce. It was owned by Thwid and Ann Hunt. I was born a alave boy. Master Hunt had two sous and one girl. Bigy and Thinbar wa8 the boys‘ nema. Annie wae the girl‘s name.

	“My parents‘ names was Yane and William Brown. Papa said he was a little shirt tall boy when the stars fell. Grandma Sofa and Grandpa Peter Bane lived on the same place. I‘m named after him. My papa come f r~i Tennessee t~o Missisaippi. I never heard ma say where ehe come from.

	~ reii~mbrance of slavery Is not at tal]. favorable. I hoard the master sud overseers ~hooping the slaves b‘fore day. They had stakes fixed in the ground and tied them down on their atcinacha stretched out and they beat them with a ~xll whoop (cowhide woven) .‚ • They would break the blisters on them with white oak paddles that had holes in it so it would suck. They be saying, ‘Oh pray, master.‘ He‘d say, ‘Better pray fer yourself.‘ I heard that going on when I was a child morning after morning. I wasn‘t big enough to go to the field. I clidn‘ t have a hard time then. Ma had to work when ehe waan‘ t abie • Pa stole her out and one night a small panther smelled them and cc~ on a log up over where they slept in a cenebrake. Pa killed lt with a bo~Ls knife. Ma had a baby out there in the cansbrek. Pa had stole her out • They went back and they never made her work no mor. She was a fast breeder; she had three sets of twins. They told him if he would stay out of the woods they wouldn‘t make her work no more~