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Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2	1
SLAVE NARRATIVES	1
WASHINGTON 1941	1
ARKANSAS NARRATIVES	1
PART 2	1
INFORMANTS	1
ILLUSTRATIONS	2
Slave Times	12
Ku Klux Klan	13
Signs of the War	22
Mean Masters	22
How Freedom Came	23
Buried Treasure and a Runaway	23
Plenty to Eat	24
Marriages Since Freedom	24
Occupation	24
INTERVIEWER’S COMMENT	25
Age	25
Family	26
Work	26
Soldiers	26
Slave Sales	26
Whippings	27
Food	27
Health	27
Present Condition	28
Interviewer’s Comment	28
Musical Instrument	39
Personal History of Informant	40
Food	43
House	44
Breeding	44
Freedom Comes	44
Right after Freedom	44
Patrollers, Ku Klux, and Reconstruction	44
Voters and Officeholders	44
Life Since Emancipation	44
Occupational Experiences	44
Interviewer’s Comment	45
Interviewer’s Comment	46
Superstitions	55
Ku Klux	70
Story	81
Kind Masters	83
Attitude of Slaves Toward Father	83
Thirty Acres—not Forty	83
Slave Work	83
Boyhood Experiences	84
Food, Houses, Clothes	84
Patrollers	84
How Freedom Came	84
Schooling	85
Occupational Experiences	85
Ku Klux Klan	86
Powell Clayton	86
A Broken Thumb in a Political Fight	86
Domestic Life	86
Opinions	87
Interviewer’s Comment	88
Work	88
Family	88
Schooling	89
How Freedom Came	89
Whipping	89
Patrollers	89
Rations	89
Slave Wages	90
Life Since Slavery	90
Opinions	90
Interviewer’s Comment	90
Slave Houses	91
Relatives	91
How Freedom Came	91
Right After the War	92
Patrollers	92
Ku Klux Klan	92
Recollections Relating to Parents	92
NOTE:	97
Interviewer’s Comment	107
Houses	108
Food	108
Feeding the Children	109
War Memories	109
Right After the War	111
Schooling	111
How Freedom Came	111
Occupation	111
Interviewer’s Comment	112
Interviewer’s Comment	112
As told by: John Elliott	112
Freedom	128
Brutal Beating	129
Family	130
How Freedom Came	130
Occupation	130
Ku Klux	131
Opinions	131
Voting	131
Slave Houses	131
Marriages	131
Memories of Work on Plantation	132
Soldiers	132
Dances After Freedom	132
Birth, Family, and Master	137
House	137
Furniture	138
War Memories	138
Right After the War	138
Life Since the War	138
Cured by Prayer	138
Interviewer’s Comment	141
Houses	155
Patrollers	155
How Freedom Came	155
Schooling	155
Occupation	155
Opinions	155
NOTE:	160
Story by Aunt Mittie Freeman	162

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