D~DE COUNTY ~LOBIDA FOI~LORE Ez~$laves Continued. and five yeer~ later I was called to preach. I e~ one of thirteen children and none of us hai ever been arrested. We were taught ritt. nI kept on preaching until I cerne to Miami . I have been aseistant pastor at Bethel African Methodist Church for t~ past ten years. “I belong to a class of Negroes called Geechees. My grendfathr was brought directly from Africa to Port Royal, South Carolina. Ify grandmother used to hold up her hand end look at it end sing out of her hand . She ‚ d n~ke them up as she would look at her hend • She sang in Geechee and also made rhymes and songs in English.“ ‚~.. ~1o