Code No.	No. Words_______
. ~ ~ ~ Project, ie~5-~(i)	Reduced f~miiiJords
	Prepared by Annie Rut~a Davis	Rewritten by
	Place, Ma3~ion, S.C.		- -~ .	79
	Date, September 21, 1937	rage 6.  ~


	II	slio remember when freedom come here. Remember when my boss told me I was free. My father come d~ere en aay he wanted his boys. Boac called, ‘Aaron, come here, your daddy wants you. I want you to go • ~ He told. me not to go till de news came though. Pleaee me ‚ I felt like a new san. N

	III	hate to speak what I think bout slavery. Think it a pity de slaves freed cause I know I‘m worried möre now den in slavery time. Dere got to be a change made. People got to turn. I belong to de Methodist Ohurch en I think everybody ought to belong to de church. God built de~ church for de people en dey ought to go dere en be up en dom in de church. Dat dey
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$o~Qe :	Aax~on Tord, Ex—Slave, Age ~O—9O, (No other information given by interviewer.)

Personal interview by H. Grady Davis, June, 1937.