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1ff. W. Dixon,	390265	 35
wiflfl3boro, S. C.


ADELINE !IPHNSOM ~LIA5 AD~LINE HALL
	~	EX—SLAVE 93 YEARS OLD .



	Adoline Hall‘s husband was Tom Johnaon but she prefers to be called htHall~~, the name of her old master. Adeline lives with hor daughter, F~nzaa,

and Etmna.‘s six children, about ten miles southea3t of in, S • C. ‚ in a three‘-roorfl frame house on the Durham place, a plantation owned by Mr•Â• M. 0we~is of E,nnsboro. The plantation contains 1,500 acres, popule~.tod by over 3ixty Negroes, run as a diversified farm, under the supervision of a white overseer in the employ of Mr. Owens.

	The wide expanse of cotton and corn fields, the large number of dusky Negro laborers working along side by side in the fields and singing Negro ~pfrituals as they work, give a fair present!~.tion or picture of what slavery was like on a well conducted Southern plantation before the Civil War. Ade-‘ line fits into this picture as the old Negro “Mauma“ of the plantation, re— spected by all, white and black, and tenderly cared for. She has her clay pipe and stick ever with snd about her. There is a spacious pocket in her dress underneath an apron. In that pocket is a miscellany of broken pieces of china,;crumbs of tobacco, a biscuit, a bit of wire, numerous strings of various colors, and from time to time the pipe becomes the warn individual member of the varied ~assortmentG

~	Her eyes are bright and undimmed by age and the vigor with which she eau telegraph her wants to the household by the rappings of that stick on the plank floor is interesting and amusing.

	She is confident that she will round otr~ a century of years,b•cause: