Project ~~1655
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EX-SiJ~)E 77 YEARS OtiD.



	Ed Barber lives in a small one~room house in the thdst of a cotton field on the plantation of Lir. A. Li. Owens, ten ~ailes southeast of V~innsboro, ~. C. he lives alone and does his o~inoooking and housekeeping. Ileisabrigitmulatto, lias an erect carriace and postu~~e, appears younger than his age, is intelligent and enjoys recounting the taies of his lifetime. His oven race doesn‘t cive him rauch countenance. 1~ijs friends in the old days of roconstruetion were white peo— pie. He presumes on such past affiliation and considers himself bettor than the full«-blooded Negro.

	n ~ t ~ been a long t ime s iaice I see you. Liaybe you has forgot but I ain‘t forgot de Lust -birne I put dose lookers on you, in ~‘7~3~ Does you tmenbers dat day? It was in a piece of pines beyond de Presbyterian Church, in Winnsboro, S. C. Us both had red shirts. You was a ridint a gray pony and I was andin‘ a red. mule, sorrel like. You say dat vrasn‘t ‘76? ~ie1l, hovi come it wasn‘t? Ouillah Harrison, another nigger, was dere, though he was a man. Both of us got to arguin‘. He ‘low he could vote for H~pton and I couldn‘t, ‘cause I wasn‘t 21. You say it was t 78 t stead of ~ 76 ‚ dat day in de pine s when you was dere ? ~el1 I Well I I sho‘ been thinkin‘ all dis time it was ‚ 76.

	n ‘Member de fight dat day v~hexi Mr. Pole ~arnadore 1~iook Mr. Blanchard down, while de apeakin‘ was a gwine on? You does? bell, us come to common ‘gree‘ ment on dat, bless GOdS

	~‘Thern was s c~ary times I i~a1e bein‘ just half nigger and lia)! ~thite nan, I lmow« ed which side de butter was on de bread. Who I see dere? Well, dero was a string

of red shirts a mile long, dat • côme into Winnsboro from White Oak. ~nd another