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Phoebe Faucette Hampton County


AN~ F]~RGU8ON EX-SLAVE 74 YEARS


	~	Annie“ sat in the sun of a fall afternoon on the steps of her house across from the Baptist Church at Estill, S. O.

‚	Her short, stout form and her kind, deeply wrinkled face beneath he~2 ~thite c~ap, were, aa always, a pleasinglyfamiliar sight.

-	“It se sure you‘ se corne, Wiissus • I‘ se been jes‘ a-sittin‘

.	here awaitin‘ for somebody to come. I‘m gittin‘ on in years flow. ideen right herefor fourteen years. I was sick last night.
~- Suffers widhigh~blood, ~es‘m.	~	~ .

H ~Could I tell you~tbout de times before do war? Well~rna‘aiu,

~	. I~as jesta baby den; so Icain‘t to say know ‘baut it for meseif,

Hbut I knows what mernother told me‘boutit.

-.	“My mother was at OldAllendale when deY~nkees conie through. She was iri de kitchen at dc-time. 1 was ~quite small. ~ ‘Round two years old - now ~höw old dat make me, ivliss? 74? ~Voli, I ki~ows I is ~gittin‘ t]~0fl~~, I remember dem talkin‘ ‘bout it all. Dey ~ searc~hed-de house, and take out what dey want, den set de house

: afire. Ma, she ni.nout den an‘whoop~ ant hollero De lady of de house wuz dere ‚ but de Mas sa had went off • De place wuz dat of

: ~ ~ ~ Buckn~ . My mother ~-been belong to de ~ Bucknors . - After dat, ~ dey moved to ‚ de öld home place of . de Bucknors down~ here at RobertH~ ville~. Dey had two places. Dey jes‘~iad to start farming all

1~:over again.~ We livea dére a goodbit after freedom, ma say. My

~~..rnother stay wid t~ii~ for ~bout three yeai~s after freedan.

~	“Fore freedom my mother used to go to de white folks church =

~	White and blaok used to worship together den. She 3ined at de

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