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~)	Pers on interviewed  Rachel Fair1~y~.
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	‚~::	A~e75	Little Rook, Ark.

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	“My mother said she had a hard time getting through. Had to steal half the time; had to put her head under the pot and pray for freedom. It was a large pot which she used to cook in on the yard. She would set it aside when she got

.	through and put lt down and put her head under it to pray.

	“My father, when nine years old, was put on the speculator‘s block and sold at Charlottesville, North Caroljn~,, }~y mother was sold on the saine day. They sold her to a man named Paul Barringer, and refugeed her to a place near Sardis, Mlssls~ sippi, to the cotton country. Before he was sold, my father belonged to the Greers In Charlöttesvllle. I don‘t know who owned my mother. I never did hear her say how old she was when she was sold. They was auctioned off just like you would sell goods. One would holler one price and another would holler ano ther ‚ and the highe s t bid wou id ge t the slave.

	“Mother did not go clear to Sardis but to a plantation ten miles from Sardis. Thj~ was before freedom. We stayed there till two years after freedom.

# .tvI remember when my mother moved. I had never seen a

wagon before. I was so uplifted, I had to walk a while and ride a while. We‘d never seen a wagon nor a train neither. McKeever was the place where she moved from when she moved to Sardis.