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Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
WASHINGTON 1941	1
ARKANSAS NARRATIVES	1
PART 5	1
INFORMANTS	1
Parents	8
Sold	9
Name	9
How Freedom Came	9
What the Slaves Expected	9
Slave Time Preaching	9
Conditions After the War	9
House	10
Furniture	10
Marrying Time	10
Ghosts	10
Ku Klux Klan	11
White Caps	11
Voting	11
Career Since the War	11
Wife and Family	12
Interviewer’s Comment	12
Birth and Age	20
Schooling	21
An “Aunt Caroline” Story	21
Family and Masters	21
Early Life	22
Occupational Experiences	22
Freedom and Soldiers	23
Right after the War	23
Marriage	24
Opinions	24
Parents and Relatives	42
Occupation	42
Masters	43
Food	43
Houses in the Negro Quarters	43
Tables and Chairs	44
Text of Interview	51
Interviewer’s Comment	52
Personal History of Informant	52
Text of Interview	54
Interviewer’s Comment	55
Personal History of Informant	55
Patrollers	65
How Freedom Came	65
Right After Freedom	65
Present Occupation and Opinions	65
Interviewer’s Comment	65
Interviewer’s Comment	68
Rations	74
A Mean Owner	74
Houses	74
Soldiers	75
Slave Money	76
Patrollers	76
Social Life	76
How Freedom Came	77
What the Slaves Got	77
Life Since Freedom	78
Ku Klux Klan	78
Work in Little Rock	79
Opinions of the Present	79
Own Family	79
Interviewer’s Note	81
Interviewer’s Comment	88
Interviewer’s Comment	93
Interviewer’s Comment	105
Superstitions	109
Birthmarks	109
Pateroles	110
Breeding	111
House, Stock, Parents’ Occupations	111
Right After the War	111
Opinions of the Present	113
Support	113
Interviewer’s Comment	116
Slave House and Occupation	116
Family	117
Freedom	117
Patrollers and Ku Klux	117
Slave Worship	117
Health	117
Support	117
Slave Marriages on the Offord Plantation	118
Amusements	118
Age	118
Interviewer’s Comment	118
Birth and General Fact About Life	118
Parents	119
House	119
Freedom	121
Catching a Hog	121
Ku Klux Klan	122
Patrollers	122
Old Massa Goes ’Way	122
Whipping a Slave	122
Prayer	123
Early Schooling	123
Present Support	124
Master	126
Houses	126
Furniture	126
Food	126
Clothes	126
Schooling	127
Signs of War	127
Memories of the Pre-War Campaign	127
Refugeeing	127
War Memories	127
How Freedom Came	128
What the Slaves Expected	128
What They Got	128
Immediately After the War	128
Negroes in Politics	128
Memories of Fred Douglass	129
Voting	129
Occupation	129
Religion	129
Parents	130
How Freedom Came	131
Family	131
Master	131
Crippled in Slave Time	131
Soldiers	131
Good Masters	131
Patrollers	131
Ku Klux Klan	131
Support	132
Travels	132
Occupation	132
Interviewer’s Comment	132
Refugeeing	133
Parents	134
Houses	134
War Recollections	134
Pateroles	134
Church Meetings	134
After the War	135
Ku Klux	135
Little Rock	135
Loss of Eyes	135
Biographical	147
Slave After Freedom	148
Mean Mistress	148
Food	149
Age, Good Masters	150
Color and Birth	150
Sales and Separations	151
Marriages	151
Ku Klux	151
Voting	151
Seamstress	152
Freedom	157
Interviewer’s Comment	160
Early Childhood	161
How Freedom Came	162
Right After Freedom	162

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