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	Interviewer	Mies Irene Robertßon
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	Person interviewed	Molly Hud~ii~~ 1~Va11aB.tuff~	sat~~

	Age  ~~:9;-~ in 1868





	“I was born in Clarendon. in 1868. My mother was sold to Judge Allen at BiIIaIIIa, N. C. and brought to Arkansas. The Cunnin~hams brought father from Tennessee when they nioved to this State. His mother died when he was three months old and the white mistress had a baby three weeks older en him 80 she raised my father. She nursed him with Gus Cunningham. My father had us call them Grandma, Aunt Indiana, and Aunt Imogene.

“When I was seven or eight years old I went to see them at Roe. When I first come to know how things was, father had boug~ht a place -— home and piece of land west of Clarendon and across the river. I don‘t know if the Cunnin€;hems ever cive hirn some lend or a mule or cow or not. He never said. His owner was Moster John Henry Cunningham~

	“My father was a medium light man but not as 1i~ht as I am. My mother was lighter than I em. I hoard her say her mother did the sewing for all on her owner‘ s place in North Carol tria. My mother was a house girl • The reason she was put up to be sold she was hired out and they put ~ her in the field to work. A dispute rose over her some way so her owner sold her when she was eighteen years old. Her mother was crying and begging them not to sell her but it didn‘t do no good she said. After the war was over she got somebody to write back and ask about her pe o She got word about her ai ster and aunt and uncle. She never seen none of them after she was sold. Never did see a one of her people again. She was sold to Judge Allen for a house girl.