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Project, 1ß~5-‘(i)	Reduced fi~om  wox~&s
Prepared by Annie Ruth ~.ViB	Rewritten b
Place, Marion, 8.0.	  -~-~ 342
Date, October 2]. ‚ 1937	Page Ï~

SYLVIA DURANT	~ 4
EX-Slave, 72 Years	~


	“Weil, I tell you just like it been. ~t was an Un— expeotin trip when 70U come here dat day en I iasn‘ thinkin bout much dat I bad. know to tell you. It been kind. o‘ put me on a wonder.“

	“You see, child, I never d.idn‘ see my grandfather cause whenl was bOX‘fl, dey had done sold him away.~ I hear tel]. dat sometimes dey would take de wife from 6~ey husband en another time dey Would take de hùsband from dey wife en sell dein o~f yonder soniewhe‘ en never didn‘ see dem no more neither. Yes, I silo know dat cause I hear my fathe r speak ~bout dat plenty times. Yes,tharn, dey sold my uncle‘s wife away en he never ~ didn‘ see her no more till after freedom come en he done been married again den. Speculators carried r~y mother‘s first husband off en den she married again. Oose I was born of de second husband en dat am‘ been yesterday.“
	S	people
	“I hear talk bout dat didn‘ none of de colored/have nothin in slavery time en heap of dem waan‘ allowed to pick up a paper or nothin no time. Often hear dem talk dat some of de niggera was freed long time fore dey know bout it. Rear dem say some white folks hold. dem long time till dey could make out to get somethin for derneelves. Don‘ think so. i~on‘ think so. No,ma~,, don‘ think so. Dey might been intended for dem to get eornèt~in when dey was freed, but I never learn of nobody gettin nothin. Cösel often heard my father say some white folks thought mo~~e