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J.M. Joimßon	FEC
Jacksonville, Florida


of the town and. after earning enough money, bought a tract of land. from him there and farmed. There his family lived and. in~ creased. Louis being the oldest of the children obtained odd. jobs with the various~ settlers, among theni being Governor Reid of Florida who lived in South Jacksonville, Governor Reid. raised

cattle for market and Napoleon‘s job was to bring them across the
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Saint Johns River on a Wex~ to Jacksonville, where they‘ were sold.

	.	Louis Napoleon is now aged. and infirm, hiB father and. mother having died many years ago. He now lives with one of hi3 younger brothers who has a fair sized orange grove on the south side of Jacksonville, He retains the property that his father first bought after freedom and. on which they lived in Arlington. His hair white and he is bent with age and ill health but his mental facul— ties are exceptionally keen for one of his age. He:proudly tells you that his master was good. to his “niggers~ and. cannot recall but one time that he saw him whip one of them and that when one tried to run away to the Yankees, Only memories of a kind master in his days of servitude remain with him as he recalls the dark days of slavery.