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	WPA in Ohio . .		Jefferson~co
~ !~	Federal ~iVriters‘ Project	.	Topic: Ex~S1avery



Fleming Clark
	~	Ex-VS	‚ 74f in years.


	My father‘~ naire wuz Fleiz~ing Clark and my mother‘s naine wuz ~maline Glark. Both of dem wuz in slavery. Der massa‘s name wuz David Bowers. I don‘t know where dey oum from but dey moved to Bad Creek after

slavery days.

	Der wuz three of us ohillun. Charles ‚ de oldest, den Anthony next arid den me ‚ de un. I wuz i‘ for a white man and wuz old enough todrive cows and work in de‘bacoa fields, pickin‘ woxns off de leaves. De other brudders worked wid ~y father on another plantation. De house where I lived wid de white Massa Lewis Northsinge and his Missus, wuz a log house wid just two rooms. I had just a little straw tick and a cot dat de massa made himself and I hed a common quilt dat de inissus made to cover me.

	I hear dat my grandmother died during slavery and dat my grandfather wuz killed by his ~iassa during slavery.

	On Sünday I would go home and stay wid my father and mother and two brothe rs • We would play around wid bal 1 and marbles • We hed no sôhool or church. We were too far away for church.

.1	earned no money. All I got wuz just my food and clothes • I wuz


leasted out to my massa and missus • I ate corn b read ‚ fat ~ hog . meat and drank butter milk. sometimes my father would catch poesu~i a~xd my mother would cookthein, and bring me over a piece. I used t eat rabbit and fish. Dey used to go fishin‘ in de creek. I liked rabbit and groundhog. De food !!flZ boiled and roasted in de ;oven. De slaves have a ~1ttle patch for a garden and d~y work it mostly at night when it wuz moonlight.