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WILLIE McCULLOUGH



8 McKee Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. Age 68 years.


	“I was born In Darlirigton County, South Carolina, the 14th of June 1869 . My mother was named Ri lia Mc-~ Cullough and my father was named Marion McCullough. I remember them very weil and many things they told me that happened during the Civil War. They beion~ed to a slave owner named Billy Cannon who owned a larg e p1an-~ tation near Marion, South Carolina. The number of slaves on the plantation from what they told me was about fifty. Slaves were quartered in small houses built of logs. ~ They had plenty of rough food and c~oth~~• ing. They were looked after very well in regard to their health, because the success of the master depended on the health of his slaves. A man can‘t work a sick horse or mule. A slave occupied the same place on the plantation as a mule or horse did, that is amale slave. Some of the slave women were looked upon by the slave ~ owners as a stock raiser looks upon his brood sows ‚ ~ that is from ~ the standpoint of produc tion. If a slave woman ~ had children fast she was c one idered very valuable b e~ cause slaves were valuable property.