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Project, i~5-~(1)	Reduced from words
prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by
Place, Marion, S.C.	~	8
Date, January 12, 193e	Page 1.
	MOM AGNES JAMES	390430
	~x-~S1ave, ~O Years



	“Yes‘um, I used to live in slavery time, but de Lord. above know, I sho don‘ really recollect nothi.n much to tell
know
you boat slavery time. I don‘/exactly how old I is. Think

I bout SO some odd. Think dat bout de age Bubba Gregg say I is. I tell you, I was so chillunfied in slavery time, I am‘ had no time to study bout no age. I say, I was so chillunfied. Yes‘urn, dat it. Dat somethin dat I ought to had ax my grandrnar~imy bout how old. I is, so den I might could. call it up to you right sharp. Oh, I wishes now I had ax my grandmamrny dat word fore she die.“

	~~Us belong to Mr. Hector Cameron fore freedom come here. Right down d.ere to Salem Church, dat whe‘ I was born. You hear talk of ~iss Janie Little over dere to }/iarion, am‘ you? Dat who used to be my uiittie in dem days, Yes,mam, boss had pick me out to tend to Miss Janie. You see, he give all his daughters one of us to have a care for dem.“

	“My white folks, dey bad a right smart of colored people dey own en far as I Can reckon, dey been spend mighty good treatment to dem all de time. I know bout old Miss used to love to feed us, my mercyl White folks would send for all us ohillun to go up to de big house en get somethin to eat twixt meals. Yes‘um, dey had a Colored people quarter dat been settin way back up on de hill. Had. to have a quarter