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Start of eBook	1
	1
SLAVE NARRATIVES	1
WASHINGTON 1941	1
ARKANSAS NARRATIVES	1
PART 6	1
INFORMANTS	1
Foods	4
Superstitious Beliefs Among Negroes	6
Great-Grandmother on Mother’s Side	13
Grandmother on Mother’s Side	13
Mother	13
Father	13
Grandfather on Mother’s Side	13
Grandmother on Father’s Side	14
Other Ancestors	14
Wife	14
Whippings	14
Patrollers	14
How Freedom Came	15
Slave Time Amusements	15
Houses	15
Right After Freedom	16
Ku Klux Klan	16
Political Trouble about 1888	16
Opinions	17
Old People in Pulaski County	17
Interviewer’s Comment	17
Freedom	24
Interviewer’s Comment	24
How the Children Were Fed	28
Sold	28
Visited by Father	28
Mother	28
House	29
Schooling	29
Ku Klux	29
Occupational Experiences	29
Support Now	30
Ate in the Big House	40
Marriage	40
Freedom	40
Slave Wages and Experiences after the War	40
Family	40
Opinions	40
Vocational Experiences	41
Interviewer’s Comment	41
Interviewer’s Comment	46
Personal History of Informant	55
Text of Interview (Unedited)	55
Interviewer’s Comment	56
Text of Interview	65
Interviewer’s Comment	66
Personal History of Informant	66
Personal History of Informant	69
Text of Interview (Unedited)	69
Interviewer’s Comment	79
Personal History of Informant	81
Text of Interview (Unedited)	81
Relatives	85
Fort Sumter	85
Patrollers and Good Masters	86
First Pair of Shoes	86
Bible and Church in Slave Time	86
Education	87
Murders	87
Interviewer’s Comment	89
Experience of Father	91
Slave Houses	92
Food	92
Work	92
Cruelties	92
How Freedom Came	92
Right After the War	92
Ku Klux and Patrollers	92
Occupational Experiences	93
Marriage	93
Present Condition	93
Interviewer’s Comment	93
Interviewer’s comment	100
Houses	110
Good Master	110
Mean Masters	111
Bushwhacking the Ku Klux	111
Amusements	112
Slaves who Bought Themselves	112
Church	112
How Freedom Came	112
Soldiers	112
Marriage	112
Opinions	112
Vocational Experiences	113
	113
Living Brother	114
Soldiers	114
Sold His Master	114
Good Masters	115
Ku Klux Klan	115
Runaway Negroes—After Freedom	115
Right After the War	116
Moving to Arkansas	116
Vocational Experiences	117
Opinions	117
Good Masters	127
Marriage	127
Right After the War	127
Vocational Experiences	127
Former Morals	128
Bachelor	129
Successful Negroes in Little Rock	129
Opinions	129
Interviewer’s Comment	130
Father	133
Yankees	133
Visiting the Graves	134
The Slave Block	134
Arkansas	134
Plantation	135
Destructiveness of Soldiers	135
Rations	135
How the Day Went	135
The Old Lady at the Big House	136
Relatives	136
Patrollers	136
What the Slaves Expected and Got	136
Voting	137
Family	137
Ku Klux Klan	137
Occupation	137
Interviewer’s Comments	139
Interviewer’s Comment	141
Interviewer’s Comment	143
Birth and Relatives	143
Good Masters	144
Jayhawkers	144
Soldiers	145
Slave Houses	145
Amusements	145
Church	145
Personal Occupations	146
Right after the War	146
Present Support	146
Early Days	150
Marriage	151
How the Day Went	151
Patrollers	151
Jayhawkers	151
Runaways	152
Slave Breeding	152
Amusements	152
How Freedom Came	152
Slave Earnings	153
What Slaves Got When Freed	153
Come Again	153
Interviewer’s Comment	153
OLD SLAVE STORIES	153
I	154
Master	157
Whippings	157
Runaways	157
Natchez	157
Age and Other Masters	158
Slave Work	158
Patrollers, Jayhawkers, Ku Klux, and Ku Klux Klan	159
Slave Houses, Furniture, Food, and Work	159
Slave Marriages	159
A Lincoln Story	159
What the Slaves Got	160
Schooling	160
Marriages	160
Present Condition	160
Opinions	161
Voting and Vocational Experiences	161
Interviewer’s Comment	161

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