FOLKLORE SUBJECTS
Name of Interviewer O- S. 3. taylor

Subject -~ sLave Uprisings; i~egroes in Confederate Army Story or Information

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	MY mother used to say that wi~en she was about four/years ol4,~ C That was about the time that the stars fell, and the stars fell in l8~3~ So she muet have been born in 1819. In 1833 ‚ she was sold for a fourteen year old girl. That was the only time that she ever was sold. That left her about eighty-three years old when she &~ died in 1903. ) She used to say that when she was about fourteen

‚	( Meckle~bur~ Co.1‘)
years old, and was living in North Carolina in Macklinb~rg, in Hen—
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~	derson County, that the white folks called all the slaves up to the ~ ~±t bi~ house and kept them there a few days . There wai~‘n~ t no trou— ble on my mother‘s place, but M~t~ad heard that the7e was an uprisIng among the slaves, and they called all the Niggers up to tk~ house. They dien‘t do nothint to them. They just called them up to the

~	house • and kept them there. It all passed over soon. I don‘t kiiow nothin‘ else about it.
	..	Confederate Army Negroes

	±‘ve“heered“ old 8rother Zachary who used to belong to Bethel Church tell about the surrender. Brother Zachary is dead now. He was a soldier in the Confederate army. He fought all through the war and he used to tell lots of storlei about it.

	rou know, Lee was a tall man, fine looking and dignified. Gravit was a little man and short. Those two generals walked up tö each other ~r with a white flag in their hands. And they talked and agreed just when they would fight, And then they both went back to their armies,

Information given y ~ ~
1517 ~. l‘7th stree~, r.~ttle Rock ~: Ark
(Negro Woman