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Interviewer	8axm~e1S.Ta1lor
Person interviewed	Fr~n]~ Briles
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817 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Age~_ About 82or 83 ~.
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	nI W~8 born ri ght here in Lrkanaaa. My tattLer s name was Moses Briles. My mothers nax~e was Tudy Brilea. Her naine before she was married- I dont know. They belonged to the Brl]es. I dont know their first nen~ either,

	My father was under 8lavery. He chopped cotton and plowed and scraped cotton. That is where I got my part from. He would carry two rows along at once, I was little and couldnt take care of a row by myself. I was born down there along the tine of the War, and my father didnt live long after.

wards, He died when they was settint them all tree. He was a choppin for the boss man and they would set them up on blocks and sell them. I dont know who the tnan was that did the selling, but they tell me they would sell them and buy them.

	I am sick now, My head looks like its goin to bust open.

	I have heard them tell about the pateroles. I didnt know them but I heard about them. Them and the Ku Klux was about the sine thing. Neither

one of them never did bother my folks. It was just like we now, nobody was

round us and there wasnt no one to bother you at all at Bribe plantation. Briles plantation I cant remember exactly where it was. It was way down In the west part of Arkansas. Yes, I was born way back south~east~way back, I dont know what the nwae of the place was but it was in Arkansas. I know that. I dont know nothing about that, My father and mother ca~

from Virginia, they said, My father used to drive cattle there, my mother

said, I dont know nothin except what they told ~