Project #1655
w.	W.Dixon		‚	4)
Wixmsthro, s. C.		390217


MILLIB BARBER
	~	B~SLkVE 82 YEARS OLD.

	tiHope you sind yourself well dis rROI‘UiII‘, white folks. I‘s just cou~non; ‘speet I eats too rm~ioh yesterday. You know us celebrated yesterday, tcause it was de Fourth of July. Us had a good dinner on dis 2,000 acre farm of 1~r. ‘Y~‘rens. God ble8s dat ~white boss maul Y~hat would us old no ‘count niggers do widout him? Dere‘s six or seven, maybe eight of us out here over eighty years old. ‘Most of them is like me, not able to hit a lick of work, yet he take care of us; he shot does.

	“~Tr. O~rens not a meiaber of de church but he allowed dat he done found out dat it more blessed to give than to receive, in case like us.

	“You wants to know ail ‘bout de slavery time, de war, de Ku Kiuxes and everything ? My tongue too short to tell you all dat I know. However, if it was as long as my stockin‘s, I could tell you a trunk full of good and easy, bad and hard, dat dis old life-stream have run over in eightytwo~ years. I‘s hoping to reach at last them green fields of Eden of de Promise Laud. ‘Scuse me ramblin‘ ~round, now just ask me questions~ I bet I can answer all you ask.

	~~4r pa name, Tom McCullough; him was a slave of old 1~.rster John McCullough,whose big two-story house is de oldest in Fairfield County. It stands today on a high hill, just above de banks of Dutchman Creek. Big road run right by dat house. My n~xnrr~‘ name, Nicie. Her btlong to de Weir family; de head of de faniily die dunn‘ de war of freedom. l‘a not supposed to know all he ‚ so I ‚ Il pass over dat • My mistress name, Eliza; good mistress. Have you got down dere dat old n~rater just