"I think the people is gettin' terrible now. You think they're gettin' better? I think they're gettin' wuss.
"I got a book here called 'Uncle Tom' and I hates to read it sometimes 'cause the people suffered so.
"I don't think old master had any overseers. Miss Julia wouldn't 'low any of her people to be beat."
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Evans Warrior
609 E. 23rd Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 80
"I was born here in Arkansas in Dallas County. I don't know zackly what year but I was bout five when they drove us to Texas. Stayed there three years till the war ceasted.
"Old master's name was Nat Smith. He was good to me. I was big enough to plow same year the war ceasted.
"Yankees come through Texas after peace was 'clared. They'd come by and ask my mother for bread. She was the cook.
"We left Arkansas 'fore the war got busy. Everything was pretty ragged after we got back. White folks was here but colored folks was scattered. My folks come back and went to their native home in Dallas County.