Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Anna King
704 W. Fifth (rear), Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 82
"I used to 'member lots but you know, my remembrance got short.
"I was bred and born in Johnston County, North Carolina. I was sold away from my mother but after freedom I got back. I had a brother was sold just 'fore I was. My mother had two boys and three girls and my oldest sister was sold.
"And then you know, in slavery times, when the white children got grown, their parents give 'em so many darkies. My young Missis drawed me.
"My fust master was such a drinker. Named Lee. Lawd a mercy, I knowed his fust name but I can't think now. Young Lee, that was it.
"He sold me, and Leo Andrew Whitley bought me. Don't know how much—all I know is I was sold.
"After freedom I scrambled back to the old plantation and that's the way I found my mother.
"My last master never married. He had what they called a northern trotter.