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Ellen B. Warfield.. :~ 9005j
	Ma.y 18, 1937.	~	~r 46
(EZ‘SLAVE STOEtY)

ÀLLI~ LE;~!ip

	(Alioe Lewis, ex-alav.e, 84~ years Old, 1fl charge of sewing.. room at Provident Hospital. (Negro), Baltimore. Ta].]., Blender, erect, her head crowned by abundant Snow white wool, with a fine carriage and . an air of poise sand self reapeot good. to behold, Alicebelies her 84 years.)
‘Yes‘m, I was born In slavery, I don‘t look it,.~but I was2
Way d~own in Wilkes County, Géorgia, nigh to a little town naae4 Washington which ain‘t so far from Augusta. My pappy, he belong to the Alexanders, and my mammy., she belong to the Wakeriel‘ plantation and. we all live with ~ ~he ak‘ 3 • No ~ none of the Wakef ‘ . niggers ever run away . They was too well off L They kx~w who they friends was! ~ ~ white folkees was ~ood. to their niggersi Them was the days when we had good~ food. and it • di4n‘t cost nothing .~ ohioken$ and hoßs and garden truck.

Saturdays was the day we got .~ our ‚ lowance for the week, and lefle tell you, they didn‘t stint us none. The beetinthe iandwaa . what:we ha4, ~»ø~ what the white folkses had~.

~	~ I Clothes ? ye ‘ in . ~ We had. two suits ~ of ob the s ‚ a winter

suit and. a summer suit ami. two paire of shoes, a winter pair and.

a summer pair. Yes ‘in, my mammy, ehe ~4n the eotton, ye8 ‘m picked

right~ on the plantation, yee‘m, cotton picking was fun, believe

met As: 1 wae~: aaying, Mammy she epi* and ehe weave the cloth, ~

a~d she .out •~t~ out and she. make our~. olothee ~ ~~~Th~t‘ s where. X ~it

. my t~te to eew,~ ..I reckon.. •When I fi~t come to Baltimore, I

~	~ . ‘de.4 ~i 41d~. I 80!e4 f9r *e beat :i‘ l~àe ~ ~i4 t~ ~ ~ ~ I 8~4c:~OX~~ ~• HOW~I!d~8 afl&‘ ~e . 5~3~.‘~:u~ arid