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Start of eBook	1
WASHINGTON 1941	1
ARKANSAS NARRATIVES	1
PART I	1
INFORMANTS	1
ILLUSTRATIONS	1
Interviewer’s Comment	6
Interviewer’s Comment	15
Interviewer’s Comment	20
	22
Interviewer’s Comment	27
Interviewer’s Comments	29
House and Furniture	32
Work as a Boy	32
Free Negroes	32
Marriage	33
Corn Shuckings	33
Rations	33
Patrollers	33
Mulattoes	33
Whippings	33
Freedom	33
Wages Then	34
Selling and Buying Slaves	34
Refugees—Jeff Davis	34
Voters	34
Ku Klux	34
Self-Support and Support of Aged Slaves in Slave Times	35
Little Rock	35
Birth	37
Persistence of Slave Customs	37
First Negro Doctor in Tulip, Arkansas	38
Schooling	38
Father and Master	39
Marriage	39
Patrollers, Jayhawkers, Ku Klux, and Ku Klux Klan	39
Slave Work	39
Opinions	39
Interviewer’s Comment	40
Circumstances of Interview	40
Personal History of Informant	40
Text of Interview (Unedited)	41
Ku Klux Klan	42
Extra Comment	43
Interviewer’s Comment	63
Slave Sales, Whippings, Work	66
Fun	66
Church	66
House, Furniture, Food	66
How Freedom Came	67
Right After the War	67
Earliest Recollections	67
Schooling	67
Ku Klux	67
Later Life	67
Story told by Boston Blackwell	77
Interviewer’s Comment	83
(This may be continued)	89
School During the War	90
Interviewer’s Comment	92
Slaves on Other Places	94
Within the Yankee Lines	94
Expectations of the Slaves	94
What They Got	94
Right After the War	95
Schooling	96
Ku Klux	96
Nat Turner Rebellion	96
Reconstruction Days	96
Voting and Political Activities	96
Songs	97
Interviewer’s Comment	99
	100
Circumstances Of Interview	101
Text of Interview	102
Interviewer’s Comment	102
Personal History of Informant	102
	103
Father Free Raised	113
Slave Houses	113
Slave Sales	113
How Freedom Came	114
Right After the War	114
Occupation	114
Random Opinions	114
FATHER	117
MOTHER	118
HOW FREEDOM CAME	118
WHAT THE SLAVES EXPECTED	118
KU KLUX KLAN	118
OCCUPATIONS	120
IDEAS ABOUT THE PRESENT	121
SCHOOLING	122
	122
EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY	124
	124
Interviewer’s Comment	129
	132
	133
Circumstances of Interview	133
Personal History of Informant	133
Text of Interview (Unedited)	133
Early Life	134
Schooling	134
Status of Colored Girls	135
Master’s Sons	135
Patrollers	135
Marriage and Sex Relationships	135
Mother and Father’s Work	135
Sustenance	135
Father’s Brother	135
Churches	135
Amusement	136
How Freedom Came	136
Right after the War	136
Life Since the War	137
Freedom	144
Patrollers	147
Ku Klux	147
Parents	147
Slave Houses	148
Furniture	148
Food	148
Right After the War	148
Schooling	148
Marriage	149
Slave Sales	149
Opinions	149
Freedom	155
Extra Comment	156
House	159
Furniture	159
Food	159
Clothes	159
Contacts with Slaves and Slave Owners	159
Leaving Richmond	159
Occupations	159
Voting	160
Thoughts of Young People	160
Interviewer’s Comment	160
Freedom	162
Ku Klux	163

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