Alabama	Preston Klein
	~ . .~ ~	SEP 1 1 1937	Opelika, Ala.
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She Just Can Remember

Her Husband‘s Name

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Sara Colquitt, who used to till the fields In slavery days,
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now has a handmaiden of her own. Sara does not know the date of

her birth in Richmond, Virginia, but she says it was more than a century ago. (193?). The “girl,“ whom her daughter has employed to take care of the nearly blind and helpless centenarian, is well past eighty herself, yet she keeps her charge neat and clean and the cabin in which they live tidy. Sara‘s daughter works in the fields nearby at Opelika, Ala. to keep the family going.

	“Mr. Bill Slaughter and Miss Mary Slaughter was our marster and mistess and dey had two chilluns, Marsh. Robert and Marsa Brat,“ Sara said. “I had four brothers and sisters, Tate, Sam, Jennie, and Tenner. Us lived in log cabins wid dirt floors and dey was built in two long rows. Us beds was nailed to de wall at one end. and. us used corn shucks and pine straw for ~nattresses.

“Miss Mary was good to us ‚ but us had to work hard and late.

I worked in de fields every day from ‘fore daylight to almost i~lumb dark. I usta take my littlest baby wid me. I had two Ch1li~fl~, and I‘d tie h~t up to a tree limb to keep off de ants and bugs whilst I hoed. and worked de furrow. All us rtiggers was fed from de big kitchen and wasn‘t hongry, but sometimes us would steal more food dan was give us anyhow.

	“I was one of de spinners, too, and had to do six cuts to c5e reel at de time and do hit at night plenty times. Us clothes was homespun orsanburg~, what us would dye, sometimes solid and