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FOLKLORE ~UB~1i~JCTS

Name of~ Int.isvi.wer S • S • Tayl or ~ubjeot

Stcry ~ Infori!iation (if not enough space on this page add page.) .

even after she had been sold

away from him and ~adld have permission to visit her from time to time.
	X~ì ~ ~ ~ ~ ~	iNffl~RITANCE OP SLAVJ~S

	If a man died, he often stated in his will which slaves should ~O to each child he had. Some men had more than a hundred slaves and they divided them UP just as you would cattle. Some times there were oertain slaves that certain children liked, and they were granted ~hoee slaves.

WHAT TKE FR~D1~1N RECEIVED

Nothing was ~i~en to my parents at freedom. None of the giggers got anything. They did n ~t give them anything. The slaves

were hired and allowed to work the farms on shares. That Is where

the sy~3te~fl of share cropping came from. I waS hired for filty

d ollars a year ‚ but was paid only five . The bos s said he owed me

fourteen dollars but five was all I got. I went. down town and bou~t

‚~ orne candy . It was the first t ime I had had that much money.

	I could‘~fl ..~ ‘t do anything about the pay. They d1d:~n:?t give me any land. They hired nie to work around the house and I ate what the boss ate. But the general run of slaves got pickled pork) molasses, ~orrimeal and sometimes flour (about once a week for Sunday). The food carne out of the share of the share cropper.
~:his infor~iati on given by	~ . . ~	. (	)
Elace of Resid~ce	1110 Izard Street
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