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James Immsl	O District Thre
O	O ~15
	Reporter	Washington Ccunty
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		SA.RAH WOODS BTJR~E O
	O,	   AgedS5




	“Teseir, I guess you all wo~i1d call me an sx.~lave cause I was born in Grayson County~ West Virginia and on a plantation X 1iv~ed for qui te a spell ‚ that is until ehen I was seven ~years old when we~all mov.d.up here toWashington County.w

	‘tM~y Pappy‘s old Mammy wi~s s~uppo~ed to have been sold into sIavei~ when my .PaPW was one month old and somv poor white ~eop1e took him ter rai~3e. He ~rorked for them until he was a growed ~ man, also

I ~ j ~ they give uim hi s free .~apers and ‚ lowed him t o leave the planta.

ation ~d come up heri~ to the North.“	O

	~Kow did w• livs on the plantation? Well ~ you sée it was like this we ~1i~ed in a 1ø~ cabin wth the ground for floors and the bed.e were built a~‘ainst the izalls jus‘ like bunks. I ‘member that the

•slavee had. a hard. time getting food, most times they i~ot just what was left over or vthatsv~sr the slaveiaolder wanted to give them so at night they would slip outa their cabins on to the plantation and kill a pig, a sheep or some cattle which they would bute1~er in the woodg ant cut ‘up. ~ wimmin folks would carry the pieces baøk to the ~abins in their aprons while the men wo~t1d et~~y behind and bury the head, ekin ana fd.~0 ~ O

	5~henever thiy ktll.~ a pig they would hays to skin it, becaue.

they didn‘t tiare to b~Z11d s firs. The woasa folk after getting home