Project #1655
Everett R. Pierce
Columbia, S. C.
	-	VICTORIA ADA]~S

~ EX~SLAVE 90 YEARS OLD.


	“You ask me to tell you something ‘bout n~r8e1f and de slaves

iii	slavery times? Well Missy, I was borned a slave, nigh on to ninety years ago, right dawn here at Cedar Creek, in Fairfield County.

	it~T massa‘s name was Sann~iel Black and xn~ssus was named Marttha.

She used to be Nartha Kirkland befo‘ she marrie4. There was five ohullun in de family; they was : Ah oe ‚ Maiming ‚ Sally ‚ Kirkland ‚ and de baby, &igene. De white folks live in a great big ~house up on a hill; it was right pretty, too.

	“You wants to know how large de plantation was I lived on? Well, I don‘t know ‘zackly but it was mighty large. There was forty of us slaves in all and it took all of us to keep de plantation goin‘ • De most of de niggers work in de field. They went to work as soon as it git light enough to 8 ee h~ to git ‚ round; then when twelve o ‚ clock come ‚ they all stops for dinner and don‘t go back to work ‘t~J, two. All ofthem work on ‚ til it git almost dark • ~o raa‘ am, they am ‚ t do niich work at night after they git s home.

	“Massa Samuel aintt had no overseer, he look after his ow~ plantation. My old granddaddy he1p him a whole heap though. He was a good nigger and massa trust him.

.	“After de crops was all gathered, de slaves still had plenty of work to do. ‘I stayed in de house wid de white folks.. De most I had to do was to keep de house clean up and nurse do ohillun. I had a heap of pretty clothes to wear, ~ cause n~ mie sus give me de old clothes and shoes dat Missy Sally throw ‘way.

“De meWs sa and niiesua was good to me but sometime I was so bad.