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EX~S1AVE STORY


	An interview on May 19, 1937 with Elbert Hunter of i~iethod, N. C., 93 years old.

	nI wuz borned eight !flhlCS frOfl Ra1t~Lgh on de plantation of ivir. Jacob Hunter in 1844. i~iy parents were Strotid and Lucy an‘ my brotLers wuz Torn, Jeems an‘ Henderson. I had three sisters who ~‚qiz nemed Caroline, E~i1ine an‘ Ann.

	‘~iViassa Hunter wuz good to us, &n‘ yo~mg Massa Knox wuz good too. My ma~y wuz de cook an‘ my pappy wuz a field hand. Massa ain‘t ‘lowed no patterol~Lers on his place, but one tL:~ when he wuzn‘t ter home my mammy sent me an‘ Caroline ter de nex‘ door house fer sömething an‘ depatteroliers got us. Dey carried us home ~i‘ ‘bout de time dat dey wuz axin‘ questions young Massa Knox rid u~p.

	“Re look dem over an‘ he sez,. tGit off dese premises dis minute, yo‘ dad~—1imb sorry rascals, if us needs yo‘

	t Il call y~ ‚ • ‚ My pappy patterolls dis place hisself.~‘ tiDey left den, an‘ we ain‘.t been bothered wid tem no
more.~‘	- „ . ~ . ~

	tt]: toted water tfore de war, minded~ de sheeps, cows and de geese; an I ain‘t 1~d n~ny whuppin‘s. neither~