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Clarendon, Arkansas
Age 67
"I ain't no ex-slave. I am 67 years old. I was born out here on the Mullins place. My mother's master was Mr. Ricks
and Miss Emma Ricks.
"My mother named Diama and my father Henry Mullins. I never saw my grand fathers and I seen one grandna I
remembers. My mother had ten children. My father said he never owned nuthin' in his life but six horses. When they
was freed they got off to their selves and started farming. See they belong to different folks. My father's master was
a captain of a mixed regiment. They was in the war four years. I heard 'em say they went to Galveston, Texas. The
Yankees was after 'em. But I don't know how it was.
"I heard 'em say they put their heads under big black pot to pray. They say sing easy, pray easy. I forgot whut all she
say.
"I lives wid my daughter. I gets commodities from the Welfare some. The young folks drinks a heap now. It look
lack a waste of money to me."
Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson"
