Project f1655
	Her117 Grant	•.			. . ~	‚.. ~ ~
	Columbia, S. C.		39O259~	.	 .



JANE JOIfl~SON

EX-SLAVE 90 YEARS GLD.


	Jane Johnson is i~ving with her niece at 1430ffarden S-treet, Coltun« bia, S. C. She is of small statue, dark, not black, plump and apparently well carecifor. On account of her agé and bodily afflic-b1.onsshe is in-. capable of self-support. Her niece is u~‘irr~arried, owns a comfortable home, works and pro~rides for her grandmother in a goodand satisfactöry manner.

	ttCome in white folks, take dat chair and set down. I hears dat~ you

-	wants to iaik to me ‘boutmy~é1f and m~r master in slavery time. L~br nethie

is Jane Johnson and I ‚ s ~ bout ninety years old ‚ from de best ‚ membrance I

has from my white folks friends and ray own people. One thing I does know,

I‘sbeen here so long, dat I- sometimesthink I‘snear ‘bout a hundred years
	. old.	~	~ -	~ ~	~ -




~	UI b‘long to Master Torn Robertson. IkT mistress‘ naine was Ophelia. I didn‘t see hermuch in slavery time, ‘cause she stayed in de~big house

-	on Arsenal Hill, Columbia, S. C. De onliest time I see her a—tall, was when I was sent to de big house for somethin‘ and dat wasn‘t often. Master and mistress hadheaps of chillun, ‘mon~ them was twins, ~ll dèad now, if

:	I ‘members right, ‘cept ~ster Torn Robei‘tson, a grandson and a rioh man too; he living right here in Co].wnbia. L~~r old master lived in columbia

-	but his plantation, where us slaves lived, was tbout four ~or five iùiles from Columbia on de Sumter road, just beyond de soldiers höspital (Vetei~.ns Hospital), dat‘s righ1~. ~ ‚

“Masi~i‘ Tom come to de plantation every day ~ ~ eept Sunda~rs and some-
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