Miriam Logan	. ~
Lebanon Ohio. pace 3-Interview with Celia Henderson, ex-‘slave.

	“Yes ‘ein, I ‚ se de on‘y one o‘ mammy ‚ s chilien livin. Mak,~ran‘ma on pappy‘ s s ide ‚ she live to be one hundred and ten ‘ s ol-powérful o]. eve ‘ybody say. She were part Indian, cran‘ ma were ‚ an dat made her to be o]..“

	t era, -moe ‚ I ~vah earn were five dollars a week. Ah gets twenty do liars now ‚ an pays e I~It do liars fo rent. We is ~ot no ‘ -ah fi~ers ~a wukin f0 ourself den what we‘d have wuz we slaves, fo dey ~1ves you a log house, an clothes, an yo eats all yo want to, an when you b~ th1n~s, maybe you doesn‘t make enough to ~it you what you needs, wukin sun~up to sun down. No‘em ‘course ah Isn‘t wukin now when you Si.ts be de hour-wukin poep].e does nOW ; but ah don‘ t know nothin ~ t that way o‘ dom.“

	“Wp weahs cotton cloths when ah were young. jes plain weave it were; no collar nor cuffs,n‘ beit like store clothes. Den men‘s jes have a kinda clothes iike...weii,like a chemise, den some pantaloons wid. a string run throu ~h at de knees • Bare feet -yes ‚ em, no shoes. Nevah need no coat down ~o Natchez, no‘em.“
	“When we comes back to Loulevilie on de boat, we sleeps in de straw on de ho‘ o‘ de boat. It ~1ts colder ‘n ooider~ Come big chunks o‘Ice down de river. De sky am dark, an hit col‘ an spit snow. Ah wish ah were back dere in Natchez dat time after de war were ovah~ Yes‘em, ah members dat rnuch.~a

	“Ah wuk alone wid mammy tU ah were married, den ah sits on by mahsef. Many she come heah to Lebanon wid de Suttons-she married Sarn~ Sutton‘s pappy. Yes ‚ em dey wuz about 12 ‘ de fambi~! own heah ‚ an ah come to see mammy ‚ . . . . den ah ~it s me wuk ‚ an ah s tays .

„ u Cookin‘ ? ‘ em, way meat is-so high now ‚ ah likes ~roundhog. Ground ho~ is good satin. A peddler was by wid. ~roun‘ ho~ fo ten cents apiece. Ground hog is god as ~ fried chicken ar~y day. You cleans de hoe, an boils it in sait water til its tender. Den you makes flour sravy, puts it on after de water am drain off; you puts it in de oven wit‘ de lid on an bakes hit a nice brown. No‘ern, don‘ like fish so well, nor coon, nor possum, dey is too 6reasy. Likes chicken, groundhoß an por~ç.~ ~id de wild. meat you wants plain boiled potatoes, yes‘em Irish potatoes. &io enou~~ •~ah heard o‘ eatin skunk, and muskrat, but ah ain~t cookin em. But ah tells you dat ~roun‘ ho~ is g~pd eat4~. . :
.~ “Ah were Baptized by a white minister in Louleville, an‘ ah been a Baptist fo‘ sixty yeahs now, Yes‘ern dey is plenty o‘colored churches in Louisville now, but when I were young, de white folks bas to see to it dat we is Baptised. an knows Bible verses an‘ hymns. Dere want no smart culled preachers like Reverend ~illiarns,..an dey ain‘t so many now.“
	“Up to Xenia is de culled s chool, an dey is mo ‚ s smart culled fo Iks ‚ ol‘ ones too-dat could cive you-all a real story if you finds dem. But me, ah cain ‚ t read, nor write ‚ and don‘ t member ‚ s nuthin fo de War no good.“

	Celia is very black as to complexion; tall spare; has small grey eyes. In three lone interviews she has tried very hard to remember for us from her youth and back throug~h the years; it seems to trouble her that she cannot remember more • Samuel Sutton‘ s fathe r r~.rri ed h~r mother. Nel ther she or Samuel hi~d the ~ kind of a story to tell that I was expecting to hear from what. little I know about colored poepie. I raaykave tried to ~et them on the songs and. amusements of their youth too often, but it seems that most that they knew, was wàr~ did not sing or have a very ßood time. Of course I thou€ht they Wöuld say that sl~u~ery was terrible, ‘but was surp~ieed there too,. Qoiored poep].e here are used to having white poeple come for them to work as they have ~ no. . teiephone,s ‚ and most • white .poep~ only hix‘e colored help bY: t~ 4&7 OX‘ ~ as . • . needed. celia and Sanluel, old. age pens~oneX‘ø,Were very apoligetic because they are no 1on~er able to wGrk, ~ ~b ~
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