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Code No.	. No. Words_
Project, 1~5~‘(1)	Reduoed fr6m_~words
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by
Place, Marion, S.C.		‘34
Date, October 15, 1937	~g~e G.   - ~~-- — —	t


if you am‘ been to church in dat day en time, you abo bad to report how-oome you. am‘ been dere. „

	UI tell you., child, I been here. ±f I live to see ~e Ohristznasday, I‘ll be past ~5 years old. I am‘ been up town in God knows when en I want s to go so bad back to see fly white folks. Dem Evans chillun, dey comes to see me often. Dat child had took dat trip round de World en she come right back en tell me all bout it. Well, bless my hea~,she done gone en get married last 8unday en I never know bout it. - She tell me she was gwine marry one of dese days, but I never know. I hope dat man will take care of her en be good to my baby. ~I hope her older days won‘ be her worser days.“ ~

	UTea,main, I remember just as good as it wasyesterday what dey say wten freedom come here . Oh, I hate s to t link bout dat day till dts one. Remember dey call all de niggere up to de yard en I hear old Mi a sus say, ‚ You don‘ no more belong to me. You can go if you want to en if you want to, you can stay.‘ I say, ‘Tee,matn, I do want to stay, I~ am‘ gwine leave you. ‚ Dat was my Whtte mammy en- I stay dere long as she live too. Didn‘ want no better livin den I Was gettin right dere. It been a Paradise, be dat what Iàallsit.“


Source:	Hester ~kinter, ex-slave, ~5years, Marion, 8.0.
—u-----— Personal interview b~ Annie Ruth Davis, Oct. ‚ 1937.