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~ri11jarn ~ebb Tuttle
	District No. 2	. ~
Muncie, Indiana


SLAVES IN DELAWARE COUffl2Y
ROSA BARBER


Reference:	~t~a Barbar, residin~ at 812 South ~efferson, . Munc~e, Indiana.


	Rosa Barber was born in slavery on the Fox Ellison plantation at North Carden, /i North Carolina, in the year 1861. She was four? years old when fi~eed, but had not reached the a~e to be of value as a slave. Her memory is confined to that short childhood there and her expe:~iences of those days and immediately after the Civil War iriust be taken from stories related to her by her parents in after years, and these are dimly retained.

	Her maiden name was Rosa Fox ~ taken as was the custom, from the slave~holder who held her as a chattel. Her parents took her away from the plantaLion when they were freed and lived in different localities, supported by the faltherwho was now paid American wages. ~ Her parents died while she was quite young and she ~narried Fox Ellison, an ex-~sleve of the Fox Ellison plantation. His name was taken from the same master as was hers. She and her husband lived together forty-t]iree years, until his death. Nine cbildren were born to them of whichonly one survives. After this ex~slave husband died ~ ~l1ison married a second time, but this second husband died some years a&o and she now ren~in$ a widow at tle age of seventy..six years. She recalls t1~t the master of the Fox ~l1ison plantation was spoken of as practicing no extreme discipline on his slaves. Slaves, as a prevaUing business policy of the holder, were :~ iaot allowed to look into a book, or any printed matter, and Rosa :~i~4‘:flbPi0tur6s or printed charts given her. Slie bad to play with
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