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Prepared by Annie ~ith Davis	Rewritten by • ~
Place, Marion, 8.0.	                  ~
Date, September 21, 1937	~e l.~
	Aaron ~Tord,	‘~Qfl#)4~:)
	Ex-Slave	V%JV~.



	III was born bout two miles bove Lake View on Zonta Rogers place. BOYS used. to tel). me I was born on Buck Branch • Think I wa~ born de 1 2th. day ~ o f February cause I ~vas bout i6 years old when freedom come. Ano~ther person born de same day en de same year en I might look on dey tombstone en get de date.N
	NMiles Tord was my father en my mother, Jennie Ford, but dey didn‘ live on de same place. Father belonged to Aliaa Ford at Lake View en mother come from Timinonsville what used to be called Sparrow Bwanip• Railroad run through de re change name from Sparrow Swamp to Timrnonsville • ~

	“Just like I tell you, Zonia Rogers was my boss en hé wasn‘ ~ 80 b&d. He whip me a few time8 when I did~ things dat I oughtened to do. Sometimes I was pesty en he whip me wid. a switch, but he never whip so hard.~ I tell de truth, Zonia Rogers was a good san. Give hie slaves good pole house s to live in up in de quarter. Never had. but five slaves to start wid en dat de reason he just had ~ two slave house in ~? quarter. Sometimes dey slept on de floor en den another time, some bad homemade bed stead wid de framework made out o f black gum •

	NWe had meat en corn bread to eat ail de time en dey gave us frted meat en rye bread en flour bread to eat every now en