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		FEDERAL WRITERS‘ PROJECT
Aznerican Guide,UJe~rO Writerß Unit)
	~	Monticello, Florida
James Johnson ~ . .	Slave Interview
Field Worker	December 15, 1936
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	Patience Campbell, blind for 26 years, waa born in Jackson County, near Marianna, Florida about 1883, on a garni of George Bullock. Her mother Te~py, belonged to Bullock, while her father Arnold Merritt, belonged to Edward Merritt, a large plantation owner, According to Patience, her ńiother‘s owner was very kind, her father‘s very cruel. Bulloçk had very few slaves, but Merritt had a great many of them, not a few of whom he sold at the slave markets.

	Patience spent most of her time playing in the sand when 3he wa3 a child, while her parente toiled in t1~e fields for their re:-;pectj~~ owners. Her grandparents on her mother‘s side belonged to Bullock, but of her father‘s people she knew nothing as “they ~1icint t come to this country. „ ehen asked where they lived, she re~ Pliedi “in South Carolina,“

SInce she lived witliher mother, Patience fared much

I)Ctter than had ehe lived with her father, Her main Łood8 included

Leat~, greens, rice, corn bread which was replaced by bIsou~ts on

Sur~4y rtiornlng, Coffee was made fi~om parched corn or meal and was

t):~.e ~ drink. The food was cooked in large iron pote and pana In