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Informant Data:AL043: White; male; age: 53 (middle-aged); education: high school; community type: small cityMedia Files:Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL043 (3:30)Full Interview 1 (Tape 0041-S1). [Additional speakers: Adult female]Content:01:55 Arthur the Rat05:50 Great-grandfather moved from Ohio and married landed widow; land and slaves12:20 Farm Informant grew up on, enterprises of family15:35 Different places Informant lived as a boy, spoiled by grandfather18:30 Grandfather’s death, number of Black families on farms20:20 Old house, Black servants22:50 [blank space]24:45 End of farming because of debt, drought27:10 Going into insurance28:45 Sheriff telling stories at community picnics31:35 Buying milk cows.33:40 Tape endFull Interview 2 (Tape 0041-S2). [Additional speakers: Adult female]00:10 Buying extremely tame cow; Black woman who milked for him04:35 Trying to get birth certificate for 18-year-old Black man with "half-witted" mother and unknown father06:35 Black burial customs, not burying dead for weeks, fear of ghosts10:35 Burying drowned Black boy14:30 Tape end

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