Project. 1885~1
~‘OLIŒORE		‚~	Edited by:
Spartaribur~ Dist.4	390241	~ ~	Elmer Turna~e
Sept. 22, 1937				...

. STORIES PROM EL~SL~VES


	.	“I live in a com±bortable two..~room cottage,which my ~ori owns. I can‘t do much work except a little washing and ironing. lvJy grand~ children live with me. I~iy other children help me a little when I need it • I heard about the 40 acres oa~ land and a mule the e~ slaves would ~et after the war, but I didn‘t pay any attention to it. They never got anything. I think this was put out by the Yankees who didn‘t care about much ‘cept ~ettin~ money ±~or themselves.

	‘II come from the Indian Creek section o~ Newberry County. After about 1880 when things got natural, some of the slaves from this section rented small one..horse farms and ïi~ade their own money ~ar~ living. Some ~ould rent small tracts o~ land on shares, giving

the landlord. one-~half the crop for use of the land. 9~erything is changed so much. I never learned to read

and. write arid all I know is what I heard in old times. But I think the younger generation ofnegroes is different from what they used to be. They go where they want to and do what they want to and don‘t pay much attention to old folks anymore.

	“My mother‘s mother come from Virginia and my mother‘s father was born and raised in this county. I don‘t reme~ìber anything about ûe Nat Turner Rebellion, and never heard anythd~n~ ‘about it. We never had any slave up.-risings in our neighborhood.tt


Source:	Prances indrews (83), Newberry, S.C.
Interviewer:	G.L. Summer, Newberry, S.C. 8/11/37.