project 1885-.!
	FOLKLORE	3SOO~‘	Edited by~
	~partariburg - Dist. 4	‚di	Elmer Turna~e
May 17, 1937
	~	.~. STORIES FROM EX....SL~AVES

	~‘Lordy, Honey, I Iho was born in slavery arid I is proud o ‚ it too. 01e Marse Cole Lawson was my oie marster. #hen I axed him how old I was, he allus lowed something like dis, ‘you is older than you is good‘, and dat all he ever said ‘bout my age. Sweet Dreams (her ~ra~d daughter~, come here and~etchme adrink from de well to vvet my mouth My ~rand-.dau~hter stay wid meat~ night. When shé

-doari stay, some o‘ de other grand uns stays. Sometime it‘s jest me ~rid Sa~o here all alone. I jes ‚ sets and looks at him at ni~ght while he sleep. He work de rich white folks‘ flower yards fer ‘em, arid dat brings him in at nicht raal tired. ~vty grand-.daughter‘s raal name is Marguerite Pbr~ter,- but nobody don‘t hardiy know dat; kaise everybody call her SWeet Dream, ~her ii baby name. She my -oldest dau~hter‘s £lfthchiie. My feelings tells me I is oie, and Ii~y wftite folks ‘1]. tell you I was born in slavery, ‘cept dey is all daed. •

“Light surs ‚ struck me on de large plantation t 01e Mars e Cole Lawson, de paw o‘ Mr. Vidtor Lawson.lvir. Victor ain‘t no sprin~chicken no rim‘ hi88elf. Dat over in Sedalia in de Minter

Section. You kno‘s ‘bout de large plantation o‘ Marse James E. Minter, dat gib de 8ection itename? (OHS show boundaries of Minter

lands)1 Way back over dar whar I was bora.

~ ~	~~Paw• stay in Union ~~ounty. Maw was 80].d t o a man name Marse

Bailey Suber over in Fairfield, while I still a suckling. At dat

. time, my paw was bought by a widder woman, M188 Sarah Barnett,4 in

Union Onty. Lawd JeeusJ Dat separate my maw and paw. Maw tuck me

‘lon •wjd her. Ma~* ~ name, Clara Sinie. When II. and maw went to Pair.

.	~ field, us didn ‘t stay dar 1on~ ‘fc .oie man Harris on Sartor oÎ San-