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~J!exi ~fb Interview (Unedited)


STA~-‘-Arkansas

I~~Ai~ OF ~RK~-~Sam~ie1 s. Taylor

ADDRESS——Little Bock, Arkaneas

D~TE—~-December, 1938

SUBJEC~-—Ex—sIave

~	A~D ADDRESS OF II~FOBM~Aj~P-‘—J~i1ia White, 3003 Cross Street, Little Rock.


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	“I was born right here in Little Bock, Arkansas, eighty years ago ort the corne r o f Fifth and Broadway. It was in a litt le log hou.s e. That us ed to b~ out lu the woods. At least, that is where they told me I was born. I :;as there but I don‘t remenber it. The first pl~.ce I remernber was a house on Third. and Cumberlazid, t]~ 8ollthwest corner. That was before the war.

	“We we re 1 lvi ng the re when pe ace was de~ 1 ared • You. kr~o w ‚ my fathe r hired my mother‘s time from Jantes Moore. Ee used to belong to Dick Galloway. I don‘t know how that was. BuSt I know he put my mother in that house on Thir~j and Cumberland while she was still a slave. And we smaller children stayed in the house with mother, and the larger children worked on James :~oore‘s plantation.

	“My father was at that time, I guess, you. ~u.id call it, a porter at i~c~lmont ‘s drtig store. He was a slave at that time but he . worked the re. He was workir~ there t1~ day this place was taken. I‘ll x~ver forget that. It was on September 10th. We we i‘e. go Ing acro as Third Street ‚ and there was a Unj~n woman told mamma to bring u.s over there, because the soldiers were about to attack the town and they were going to have a battle.

	“I had on a pair of these brogans with brass plates on them, and. they were flspping open and I tripped u.p just as the rebel so1di~s were running