340033	~ District #2
	Thrmer~ Slave Interview
	~			~ ~.	Special
			.		Middletown		‘)r.
		.	‚		Batler County	•
					Au~‘;. 16, 1937

/
	Interview with

~	Mrs. ~Nancy East, 809 Seventeenth Ave.,
Mid.d.letown, Ohio.


	liMamrn~rH East ‚ 809 Seventeenth Ave . ‚Midd1etow~a, Ohio ‚ ru.les a f our~ room bun~a1ow in the negro district set aside by the ~nerican Rolling Mill Corporation. She lives there with her sons, workers in ~he mill, and. keeps thera an irnraaculate home in the manner which she was ta~ight on a Southern plantation. Her hou.se is furnished with modern electrical appliances and. furniture, but she herself is an anachronis:~i, a personage with no faith in ~i~odern methods of living, one who belongs in that va~e period. designated as “i~efo‘ de wah.“

	01 ‘men~bahs all bout de slave time. I was powerful snail but my mother and d.addy done tole me all ‘bout it. Mother and. dadd.y bofe cime f~O2fl Va~inny; mother‘s mama did too. She was a weaver and made all our ciothés ~ axul de white folkg cia thee . ‘ s all she ever did. ; just weave and. spin . G‘ran ~ marna and. her clii Iluns w~z sold. to the Le tt fambly, two brothers from Monroe County, Alabama. Sole jist like cows, honey, right off the block, jist like cows. Bat they wa~ good. to they slaves.

	“My xaother‘ s last name was Lett ‚ after the white folks ; ~d d.a&Iy‘s name was harris Mosley, after his master. After mother and.

daddy married., the Mosleys done bought her from the Letts so they cou~1d be together. They was brother-4n-iaws. Den I was named after Miss Nancy. Dey was Miss Nancy and. Miss Hattie and. two boys in the Mosleys. Land,