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	PoLI‘~IORE .	‘)c~n‘)‘)r	~		Edited by:
	~partanburg, Dist.4	~	 .	.	Eimer Turna~e
Sept. 7, 1937


STORIES OP EX~SLÂVES ~ ~	.


	“I is what is knov~n as a outside child. My Ma ~ent to Hamrn.. ~.et. I ~.ived on de Jefferies plantation, below Wilkin$ville in Cherokee County . ~viy Lather .was Henry Jefferies . My mother was Jane Jefferie$. My mother‘s husband was ‘named Ned.. Before her marriage she was t Davis . She was ~ sold in slavery t O Henry Jeff~ries . I allus lived wIth my mother, and Ned ~as as good to me as he-was to his own

chillun. My mother had three outside chilluns, arid we each had a different father. Atter sh~e married Ned; den he jest come to be our Pa, dat is he let her give us his name. She and Ned had sour chillun.

	t!My first wife is dead arid my second wife is named A~liee Jefferies. Igot one child by my first wil‘e,and Ï ain‘t got rio out~ side chilluns. Dat works~ out bad, at best. None of my £olksis liv-.

	ing. All of dein is done dead now; jest me,. my wifé and my sister‘s daughter, Emma~who is grown now, Her Pa and her Ma took and went

crazy befo‘ dey died. Both of dém died in de asylum. We took ~nma, and she ain‘t jest ‘zactly right; but ~ie ~ain‘t n. bother to ue.

	.	“First thing Ihad to do as ~a child was to mind my Ma ‘s other chilluns as I was de first outside one datshe had. Dis I did until ~I was -about twelve years old. My Ma and Ned-wa8 working one da~ and I was~ minding her chilluns as usua1~wheri I looked up and

~	~ 8eed de top of out‘ house onfire. 1 hollered anddey come running

~	£rorn.cle field.. De other harid8 com~e withdein kaise I made such a noise;ho1leri~a~, $oon de bi~ ~Olk8 got de fire out. 4,tter dat, Marsé ~ to.Ieav.e4e house an4 €o to work fer him.
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