Oode No.	.	No.	Words________
Project, 1~5-.(1)		Reduced f~Zi	~rds
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis		Rewritten by	~‚
Place, Marion, S.C. ~		 ------w     ~-	‚.
Date, January 7, l93~		Page l.


MOM RT~R ZMMA1~TJ~L
	Ex-Slave, 7~ Years	390426



	“Good evenin, child. How you is? How Miss Sue gettin along over dere to Marion? I hope she satisfied, but dere airi‘ nowlie‘ Can cotne up to restin in your own home, I say. No, Lord, people own home don‘ never stop to cuss dem no time. Dere Koota‘s mamma all de time does say, ‘Ma, am‘ no need in you en Booker stayin over dere by yourself. Comč en live wid us.‘ I say, ‘No, child. Father may have, sister may have, brother may have, en chillun may have, but blessed be he dat have he own. ‚ I tell all my chillun I rather stay here under my own roof cause when I takes a notion, I can go in en bake nie a little hoecake en draw rue ~ pot of coffee en set down to eat it in satisfaction.°
	HAf1~er you was gone de other day, I thought bout right smart to speak to you, but when I gets tired, I just get all fray up somehow. My sister, she come to see aie Sunday en I had dem all laughin bout what I say dat I bad tell you. My sister, she make out like she don‘ know nothin bout dem olden tinies. Her husband, he done gone en die en she ouSt loo~in round for another one. Reckon dat what ails her. I tell her, I aifl~ see none nowlie‘ dat I would be pleased to take in. But I dOne care what she say, us sho been here in slavery time cause my mother didn‘ have b‘ut one free born child en dat one come here a corpse,H