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•Mar~7ing Time

“I remember one night the people were gone ~ to marry. That *as when

ail the people in the co~inity married i~ediate1y after slavery.
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“we had an open fireplace. That was at .Bartl•tt Sand,r8.‘ Place. Hs

had close on to three thousand acres. Every grown person had gone to ths marrying, and I was at home in the bsd I just described.

	“Mi)~randtath.r‘s mother]had a chair and that was her5 only. ~ was named Senia and was about eighty years old. ~ We . burned nOthing but pina knots in the hearth. You would put one or two ot those on the fin end they would barn for hours. W, were all in bed and had been for en hour ox‘ two. There were some others sleeping in the same x‘o~ There cerna a peculiar knocking on[€randinother‘ejchai~ It‘s hard to describe it. It was something like the distant beating or a drum. Grandmother was dead, of course. The boys got up and ran out and brought in some of the hands.

. When they Caine in, a little thing about three and a halt feet high with legs about six or eight inches long ran out of the room


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“Whenever there was a man of influence ‚ they terrorized him. They

were at their height about the time ot Grant‘s election. Many a time my mother and ~ I have watched them pass our door. Th.y wore gowns and e~ kind of helmet. They would be going to catch some leading Negro and whip

him. There was scarcely a night they couldn‘t take a leading Ne~o out and whip Min if they would catch him alone. On that account, ths Negro men did not stay at home in ~imter County, 3outh CarOlina at night.
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