Project 1885 .1-	390092
	District ~7~14		.	()
	Spartanburg, s. o.
May 28, 1937



‘POLK—LORE : EX~S LAVES


	.	Six miles east of Spartanburg on LF.D. No.2, the writer found Aůnt Charlotte Foster, a colored woman who said she was 98 years old. lier mother was Mary Johnson and her father‘s nsme was John Johnson. She is living with her oldest daughter, whose husband is J0h~ Montgomery.

	She stated she knew all about slavery times, that she and hér mother belonged to William Beavers whO had a plantation right on the main road from Spartanhurg to Union, that the farm was near Big Brown Creek, but she didn‘t know what larger stream the creek flowed into. Her father lived on another place somewhere near Limestone. She and her môther were haxids on the farm and did all kinds of hard work. She used to plow, hoe, dig and do anything the men did on the plantat Ion. „ I worked in the hot sun. „ Every now and then she would get a sick headache and tell her master she had it; then he wou1d~ tell her to go sit down awhile and rest until it got better.

	She had a good naster; he was a Christianif

there ever was one. He had a wife that was fussy and mean. tu didn‘t call her Mistus, I called her Minnie.“ Bat, she


quickly added, “Master was good to her, just as kind and gentle like.“ When asked what was the matter v~ith the wife, she just shook her head and did not reply. Asked if she had rather live now or during slavery times, she replied that if her master was

living she would be willing to go back and live with him.