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Ohio Guide
Ex-Slave Stori4~.
Aug.15, 1937
SU&~N BLEDSOE

462-	12th St. S. F., Canton, Ohio.
	HI, . was born on a plantation in G~i1es County, near the town of ~1kton, in Tennessee, on August 15, 1845. My fat~r‘s name was Shedriok Daley and he was owned by T cm Daley and my mother ‚ s name ~vas Rhedia Jenkins and her master‘ s name w~.s Silas Jenkins • I was owned by my mother ‚ s ina$ter bui; scaTLe of my brothers and sisters— I had six brothers and six sisters were owned by Tom Daley.

	I always worked In the fields with the men except when I was called to the house to do work there. tMasse~ Jenkins was good and kind to all us slaves and we had good times in the evening after work. We got in groups in front of the cabins and sang and danced to the music of banjoes until the overseer would come along and make us go to bed. No, I dontt remember what the songs were, nothing in particular, Iguess, just some we made up and we would sing a line or two over and over again.

	We were not allowed to work on Sunday ‘but we could go to churôh if we wazited j~ There wasn‘t any colored church but we could go to the white folks church if we went with our overseer. His name was Charlie Bull and he was good to all of us.•

	Yes ‚ they had to whip a slave sometimes ‚ but only the bad ones~ and the~r deserved it. No. there ~wasntt any jail on the plantation.

	We all had to get up at sunup and work till s~d~ and we always had good food and plenty of it; you see they had to feed us weilso we would be strong. I got better food when I was a slave than I have ever

~	hadsince.