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241-Susan Snow, ex-slave ‚ Lawierdal e County
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w.	B. Allison
Rewrite, Pauline Loveless
Edited,. Clara L Stokes
	SUSAN	SNOW

Meridian, Mississippi


	.	“Aunt Sue“ Snow, a rather small and profusely wrinkled 87-year-old ex-slave, lives in the Negro quarter8 of the South Side in Meridian.

	In spite of her wild escapades ‚ her reputat ion for honesty and reliability is high and she carries and exhibits with pride numerous lett ers attesting that fact.

.	. She often finds it necessary to stand and act the story she is telling. Her memory is amazing and she turns with equal readiness to copious quotations from the Scripture and other pious observations to amusing but wholly unprintable anecdotes of her somewhat lurid past.

	“I was born in Wilcox County, Alabama, in 1850. W.~r. Snow was my old marster. He bought my ma from a man named 3~erry Casey. : t

Venus was ter name, but dey mos‘ly called her ‘Venie.‘

	“I‘s workin‘ now for otis o‘ my old folks. I can‘t work

mnch - jus‘ carries things to ‘er an‘ such. She‘s n~ old mistis‘ own	J

daughter an‘ she ‚ s got gran!.oliiliun grown au‘ married. All de chillun	J

dat‘ s 1~vin‘ is older‘n me. ~	j “When her pa bought my n~iwtny, I was a baby. Her pa owned
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