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	‚ PöÏklore	‘~Q	‚1,0	Edited by:
	 Spartanburg, Dist.4	~	„	Elmer Turriage
Feb. 4, 1938


STOIUES ~OM EX-~SLAVES


	?tMarch lb, 1862 is de date I allus takes ~vheri. folks axes how old is you. Dat‘s de best, to follow one date, den rio argument don‘t
	Lollow.	~

	1tSome see‘d it powerThl hard in slavery, others never see‘d it so bad. Dat ‘pends onyou a lot, den i~ tpe~d5 on dein dat you stays wid. It still like dat everywhar dat I is been, but I ain‘t been no Lurther dan Spartaaburg swine north, and to Lyles‘s Ford gwirie south.

~	‚ “Pr9in a wee bi.tty bab~dey teach xrLe t‘o serve. Befo‘ you serves ‘God you is ~ot to know how to serve man. De Bible speaks of us as servants of de Lawd. Niggers can serve Hirn better dan white folks,- ~‚ kai$e dat ‘is all deydoes if dey stays whar dey belongs. Young folks andchllluri‘being raised up real biggity like dey is now, dey can‘t serve nothing, kaise if you can‘t serve your earthly father, how is you gwine to serve your Heavenly Father?

‚	“De big plantation arid house whar Mr. Jirmnie Jeter‘s sons stay is whar 3~ first see‘d earthly lieht. Dat, place still look fine, and. it look Line den, too. When I was 8 years old I started out in de field, afo‘ dat I did. jes‘ what all little ni~er boys did, nothing but eat and sleep and play and have a bi~ time wid de little white boys. Lots of my playmates, both white and black, doae gone on nQW. Some done cone to de bad place and soznedone done to Heaven, jest ain‘t rio use

talkir~€, dat‘s sho nuff de truth.	~

: . • ~ „~ ‚~ “War was ra8in~ ail ‘rouiad Charleston and Colunibia when I

come in dis world so dey says, Yankees carn~ped in haLf mile of Santuc.


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