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MARY AND~S.ON


c:ß years of age. 17 Poole Road, R.FID. # 2 Raleigh, N. C.


	~Iviy name is Mary Anderson. I was born on a plantation

.	near Franklinton, Wake County, N. C. May 10, 1851. I was a slave belonging to Sam Brodie, who owned the plantation at

~ ‚	this place. My IIi±SSUS‘ name was Evaline. ~ fath~was Alfred ~odje and my mother was Bertha Erodie..

	ttWe had go od food ‚ plenty of warm homemade c lathe s ~d comfortable houses. The slave houses were called the quarters arid the house where marster lived was called the great house. Our houses had ti,~o rooms each and marster ‚ s house had twelve rooms. Both the slave and white folks buildings were located in a large grove one mile square covered with oak and hickory nut trees. ~rster‘s house was exactly one mile from the înain Louisburg J~oad and there was~ a wide avenue leading through the plantation and grove to marster‘s house. The house fronted the avenue east and in goirzg down t~ e avenue from the main road you traveled directly west.

~\	~ . ttThe plantation was very large and there were about two
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~	~1‘~undred acres of cleared land that was farmed each year.(A pond

~~~fwas located on the place and in winter icevas gathered there f~

~	:~‚ ~ summer use and stored in an ice house which was built in the .;~ve
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.~ \~ : where the other buildings were •	A large hole about t en feet deep

.~\ ~ dug in the ground ; the ic e was put in that hole and covered.




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