Project 1885..~1	3300S6
FOLKLORE		Edited by:
Spartanburg Dist.4		3lmer Turna~e
May 25, 1937


STORIES OP EX.-SLAVES


	“I was born in the town of Newberry, arid was a servant of Maj or John P. Kinard • I inarr ied Sam Eddingt . I was a Baker, daughter of Mike and Patience Baker. M.yiiother was a free woman. She had her freedom before the war started; so I was not a slave. I worked on the farm with my mother when she moved back from town. Mania worked in town at hotels; then went back to the country and died. In War time and slavery time, we • dida‘t go to school, ‘cause there was~ no schools for the negroes. ~&fter the war was over and everything was settled, negro schools was started. We had a church after the war. I used to go to the white folks‘ Lutheran church and set in the gallery. On Saturday afternoons we was off, and could do anything ~e wanted to do, but some of the negroes had to work on Saturdays. In th~ country, my mother would card, spin, and weave, and I learned

it.	I could dō lots of it.“


Source:	Harriet Eddington (86), Newberry, S.C.
Interviewer:	G.L. Summer, Newberry, S.C. May 20,, 1937.