Stepney Underwood; from the Library of Congress Collection
Remembering Slavery: 
Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories
 
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that you's gonna tell all the children my story.
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Billy 
McCrea 
Interview Place: Jasper, TX 
                                       Interview Date: 1940
                           Interviewers: John A. Lomax and Ruby T. Lomax
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    I can remember just as good. They'd jus' have, they'd have, uh, six and eight mules to a cannon, going through and boats on them there, uh cannon, cannon. Then they'd take the wagon, and have boats all on them wagon. Now, nothing but them mules, nothing but them mules, and one man a-riding, riding tow mule. We all use to take a look at them. You understand? All day long be crossing, I 'member jus' as well, and all the Yankees I remember was blue, was dressed in blue clothes, I can remember it, with blue junk right here, and had a little pin on the coat right there. In fact I'm, and course it was up here. You, yeah, I remember jus' as well, day they come roun', and they, black mules, have uh, maybe, oh, I don' know how many black horses. Then they come along in with lot of these ol' gray mules, on it, hitched to them cannon, cannon. And then they come back with horses, sorrell horses. Horses have to all go--. That way for two days, they was going out through Jasper. 
Gaston, Alice (AL)   |   Hughes, Fountain (MD)   |   McCrea, Billy (TX)  | McDonald, Joe (AL)   |  Moseley, Isom (AL) | Smalley, Laura (TX), beating    | Smalley, Laura(TX), child care     |  Smith, Harriet (TX)  |  
Faulk, John Henry (interviewer)   |  Epilogue  
 
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