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	Spartanburg, Dist.4	- 390233	Elmer Turna~e
Sept. 9, 1937
	.	STORIES OP EX~SLAVES


	-	Cordelia lives in a small shack with some friends. She is quite an actor and a tireless teller of yarns. She still ties her head up in a white ra~ and has large eyes set far apart ~nd a very ±~1at nose. She is ebony colored. She is a firm beliéver in her re‘..

ligion and she enjoysshoutin~ onany occasion for joy or for sorrow. “Wh~tèj~olks tells stories ‘bout ‘ligion. Dey tells stories

-‚	‘bout it kaise dey‘s ‘fraid of it. I stays independent o~ what whitefolke tells me when I shouts. De Spirit moves me every day, dat‘s

how I stays in. WhiteThiks don‘t feel sech as I does; so dey stays

-	out. -Can‘t serve God ail-de time; ailus something getting in de way. Dey triesme and den I suddenly. draps back to servin~deHolyGo.df

-	Never does.itmakeno difference howl‘s-tossed about,J-esus, He

comes arid $avea nie everytirne. l‘s had a hard time, but I‘s blessed
	flow ~ ~ no mo ‚- mountains .	- -

	. -	‘LEver since i-a child I is liked whlté tôlks. Dey‘s good. and dey doe8 not know w-hy dey tells stories ‘bout Jesus. I ~ot a

heap mo‘ irrslavery dan I does now; was sorry when Preedom got here. _± ‘specks-I-is n~~h to a hundred, •bu~ dat‘s so old, I jest calls

--	myself any whars twixt sevetaty.~five and a hundred. I recollects ~ slavery, though. Ma was Charlotte Anderson and she lived in Union

County w~d de Tuökers, jest across from de Richards Q~uarter.

	-	- “Biggest sieht I ever see ‘& was dat. balloon when it come down~on Pea. Ridge. De man in it everybody addressed asProfessor

(Prof.. Lowé ~ 1861). He let uncle Jerry ~it in it. Mr. Mö~issick ~t~-1ped uncle Jerry up in it . It was de first ballôo.ù ever ~ come to

-:~-~.~‚- ~ ~ ~OL4~ty, and “bu dis day I don‘t like r~o balloon8.	-

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