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West Memphis, Arkansas
Age 50
"I was born close to Natchez, Mississippi. Grandma was sold at Wickerson County, Mississippi. They took her in a
wagon to Jackson, Tennessee. She was mother of two children. They took them. She was part Indian. She was a
farm woman. Her name was Dicy Jackson. They sold her away from the Jacksons to Dobbins. She was a house
woman in Jackson, Tennessee. She said they was good to her in Tennessee. Grandma never was hit a lick in slavery.
Grandpa was whooped a time or two. He run off to the woods for weeks and come back starved. He tended to the
stock and drove Master Clayton around. He was carriage driver when they wanted to go places.
"After freedom grandma set out to get back to grandpa. Walked and rode too I reckon. She brought her children
back. After a absence of five years she and grandpa went back together. They met at Natchez, Mississippi. Mama
was born after freedom.
"The way grandma said she was sold was, a strange man come there one day and the master had certain ones he
would sell stand in a line and this strange man picked out the ones he wanted and had them get their belongings and
put them in the wagon and took them on off. She never seen grandpa for five years."
Interviewer Mrs. Bernice Bowden"
