$torie3 PI‘OIIl Ex—Slaves (Gu8 Peaster)
Pa~e2 :• ‘49.
	!!iawyer Shand tuck my ma to work fur him arid I started beine his coachman. He oie and he live In Columbia now. When he done dat, me and. ma lived in one of his houses. He lived on what you knows as Dougla8 Heights and he had de biggest house dar. Dat was way befo‘ Captain Douglas moved from Goshen Hill. Den Captain Douglas tuck de day and built dat house you sees now aheading what dey calls Douglas Heights atter Lawyer Shand‘s house was to‘ (torA) down. De house sot right on top de hill in de middle of de street you aees~. His driveway was flanked wid water oaks and it retched down tà Main street. De grounds was on each side dat drive arid dey

	retched to whar de white folks is got a school (high school) now. On de other side of dat d-rive his grounds hit Miss Pant‘s~

(Mrs. John Pant‘s property).	~ ...

. .	“YOU could clam up Cap Douglas‘ stairs and ~it in a

run~around~. (cupola) and see de whole town through dein. glass winders; (This cupola is still on the house.) Never had none o~ dem things in Union afo‘ dat. Sortie years atter. dat, when Col. Duncan had his house run over (remodeled) he had one of dem

*	.. run-arounds put on his ‚ n. To dis day wi~d all de fine L ixings .~olks has in Union, dar ain‘t narry one got none o~ dem things and dey sho‘ is purty.

	“Let me drap back, kaise X is gone tob fer along; you wants olden times. On our plantation Marse Tom had a nigger driver. Jie ‘hoop arid holler and wake us up at break of day. But beTh‘ freedom come ‘long, Marse got a bell; den dat nigger driver rung dat bell~ at break of day . He w~s a sorry nigger dat
never had no quality in him a‘tall, no sir.ee.