Stories Prom Ex.-Slave8 ~ (Silas Glerm)	Page 2 137


They eat out under big shade trees in the yard where Ma$ter always kept a lori~g table.for dinners they had sometimes. When fr~edom come, the master called all his slaves up to the house one night and spoke to them. He said they was free, but any v~ho wanted to stay on with him and help make the crop that year could stay and he wouldpay wages. All stayed that year.

	“The Ku Klux arid Red Shirts didn‘t like negroes. They . would catch them and whip them. ~- . ~

	~	“It was a lon~g time after the war before the negroes had a schooL They went to white folks churchs for a long time. Some of them had ‘bruehharbors‘ for their churches, and.schools, too.

	.	ni don‘t know nothing about Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.~I can‘t ~give much about Booker Washington, except I heard of him arid believe he is a good man arid doIng a good turn for the negroes.

	ni thinkslavery was wrori~ don‘t think~one man ought to ownanother man. ~ ~ -

	“Ijoined the church when Iwas about 25 or 30 years old.“


Source~ ~ilas Glenn (79), Newberry, S.C. RPD
~	Interv~ièwer: G.L. Summer, Newberry, S.C. 8/9/37. ~
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