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CORNELIA ANDREWS


An~ interview on May 21, 1937 with Cornelia Andrei~‘s of Smithfield ‚ Johnston County ‚ ~tho is 87 years old. ..


	“De fust raarster dat I ‘members wuz Mr• Qute Williams an‘ he wuz a good marster, but me an‘ my mamnr a~i‘ some of de rest of ‘em wuz sold to Doctor MCKay Vaden who wuz not good ter us. .

	“Doctor Vaden owned a good~..sized plantatičn, but he had just eight slaves. We had plank houses., but we ain‘t had rauch food an‘ clothes. We wored shoes wid wooden bottom~ iii de winter an ‚ no shoes in de swnnier • We ein ‘t

	had much fun, nothin‘ but candy pullin‘s ‘bout onet a year. We ain‘t raised no cane but rnarster buyed one barrel of

	‘lasses fer candy eber year.

	sty0, know da.tdar wuz a big slave market~±n Srnithfield‘dern days, dar wuz also a jail, an‘ a whippin‘ post. I ‘members a man named Rough somethin‘ or other, wM.t bought forty er fifty slaves at de time an‘ carried

	‘eni terRiehinond tore-sell. He had four big black horses : hooked ter a oart~ an~ behind. dis ôart he chained de sia~es, an~t:dey~.~had ter walk, or trota11~ de way .. ter Elebnond. De little one~ M~ R~ugh would throw up ia de ~ cart an‘ • off
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