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slave s ‚ arid get a big drove of thera and take them further s outh to work in the fields, leavin their babies. I‘se ne‘mr can forget.~ I knowtd some mean oie masters~

	Our oie master Dale that raised my Mammy and her family never Was hard or mean like that. He would let us go to church, have parties and danoes. One of the oie salves would come to our cabin with his fic3dle and we ‘d dance.

	After I‘se grow‘d up, I‘se wo‘ked for Mrs. Susan Lovell, that was the oie masters married daughter. She lived down the road from his faTm. She was good to me~ You see I was named after Susan Lovell. It was while I was wo‘kin‘ fo‘ her when the war ended. She told me I was free after the war was over. I got happy and sung but I didu‘t ~ow for a long time, what to

~	be free was, so after the war she hired me and I stayed on dciii‘ ail the cookin‘ and washin‘ and all the work, and I was h&red to her for four dollars a month. After the war was over my fathei~ died. And it wasn‘t long after

~	that ‚ I Married V~n. Sanders and we had six ohilth‘on. I got a Government pension, as my husband was in the army during the Civil War and he was wounded in the body, but he lived a long time after the war was ended.

	In the oie days we used to sing and go to church, sing the oie time religion, and when we danced we sung: “~Vho~s been here since Pse been gone, Ah, that gai with the blue dress on.“

	I‘se still believes in lots of good and bad luck signs, hut forget most of ‘em, “But if you drap a knife, on the floor someone is sure to come to see you, and if you dream of money that is good luck.“ “To sneeze at the table is bad luck, to sneeze when away from the table good luck.“ “If you dream of the stars is bad luck.“


A story resulting‘ from an intérview with John ~&xiderson, an old Negro slave:
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