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Interviewer	8axm~e1S.Ta1lor
Person interviewed	Fr~n]~ Briles
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817 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Age~_ About 82or 83 ~.
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	nI W~8 born ri ght here in Lrkanaaa. My tattLer‘ s name was Moses Briles. My mother‘s nax~e was Tudy Brilea. Her naine before she was married- I don‘t know. They belonged to the Brl]es. I don‘t know their first nen~ either,

	“My father was under 8lavery. He chopped cotton and plowed and scraped cotton. That is where I got my part from. He would carry two rows along at once, I was little and couldn‘t take care of a row by myself. I was born down there along the tine of the War, and my father didn‘t live long after.

wards, He died when they was settint them all tree. He was a choppin‘ for the boss man and they would set them up on blocks and sell them. I don‘t know who the tnan was that did the selling, but they tell me they would sell them and buy them.

	“I am sick now, My head looks like it‘s goin‘ to bust open.

	“I have heard them tell about the pateroles. I didn‘t know them but I heard about them. Them and the Ku Klux was about the säine thing. Neither

one of them never did bother my folks. It was just like we now, nobody was

‘round us and there wasn‘t no one to bother you at all at Bribe‘ plantation. Briles‘ plantation I can‘t remember exactly where it was. It was way down In the west part of Arkansas. Yes, I was born way back south~east~way back, I don‘t know what the nwae of the place was but it was in Arkansas. I know that. I don‘t know nothing about that, My father and mother ca~

from Virginia, they said, My father used to drive cattle there, my mother

said, I don‘t know nothin‘ except what they told ~‚