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	~arrie was asked to relate her memories of childhood days~ on the old plantation. “I‘se done iflOet forgot $:bOUt dem days,.~ she replied, 0but if you a~ me son~e queßtions hit rnought corne back to nie . Hitt ~ sueh a fur way back dat I ~ done t never think ‚ bout dem times no more.* After a. few reminders, the old Negress begaa eagerly volunteering her rec~ollections.: ~ ~

	‘Slave traders fot~hed ~‚ Pa, he ‘was Phi]. Ruoker, f‘um Richmond, Virginny, and sold him to Marse Joe Squire Rucker. ~ . ~.‚ she was Franee s Rucke r, ~as borned on Marse Joe Fa place nigh RuCker8ville, up in -‘~ibert County, and all 10 Of US chilluiis was born oit dat ~1antation too. Hester Ann, Loke Ann, ~iiza~et~i, Mary, Minnie Bright, Dawson, Anttony, Squire and Philip was my sisters and brothars. Grandma B~ssie done de cookin‘ at de big h.ouse. Grand»a Ant‘o~ had dOne died long ‘fore I got big enough to know nothin~‘ ‘bouthim.

	“Miss, ~killiuia what was knee high to a duck had ‘to wuk. ‘Tu dey was big an~. strong enough for field wuk, ‘little Niggers done all sorts of piddlin‘ ~ Dey toted~ water to de big house and to de hands in de fields, fotched in chips and wood, and watched de COWS. Me? I nussed most of de time. ~ if dere~was any money giTe out for slaves‘ wuk de grown folkses got it all, for I never seed none and I never heared ‘bout no Niggers gittin‘ none in slavery times.

	0tJs lived in log cabins scattered 1round de plantation. ]~ oigge st of ~ em had two rooms and evvy cabin ‚ had a chimbly made out of sticks and red mud. Most of de chjl].tLn slept on pallets on de