Stories Of ~x~-S1aves ~ (Wallace Davis)
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	“I married Lilla Davis at de~white ±olks‘ Baptist ci~urch in Ne~berry.

	~‘Viheri slaves got sick some of den. took tree barks arid made teas to drink, arid some made tea from root herbs. V~e had doctors,

too, but dey made lots o~ deir medicine from de barks arid herbs, ~I can‘t re~r~~rnber much ~:hat de Ku Klux did, but heard

about dem. Just a±ter de war de Yankees rnarche~ through our place arid stole some cattle and run away ~vid dem. In some places dey

burned down de barns and gin houses.

	“I had a good master and always had plenty to eat, so I ti~ought slavery was all right. vIe didntt have nothing oi~ any kind. to worry about,

	“I don‘t know nothing much about ~Abe Lincoln or Je±~fersori Davis.“


Source:	Wallace Davis (N. 88), Nev~berry, S.C.
Interviewer: G.L. Summer, Newberry, ~ (9/15/37).