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	~partanbUr~, Dist.4		~1mer Turnage	„
	Oct. 21, 1937

STORIES PROM EX.SLÂVES

	“I live in town in a little two~~.room house wid some off my ~ratidchi11uns. ~e rent de house. lam too old to v~iork, but ão what
	Icari.	. .

	‘TI was de slave oi~ John Johnson. His wife was Miss Polly. De~ was ~oodto de slaves, and I had no trouble. 1~y mother was Eliza Johnson and my pa was Daniel Johnson. Dey ~was both~ slaves to Marse John Johnson. iy mother ~v~is from Georgia. We always lived in. de yard behind de house in a. small one~room cabin, a pretty good place to live, I reckon. ~

!?We didn‘t git rio money ±~er our work. We got something to

: eat, but riot much clothestowear. Weworked hard dem days; gotup at suri~up arid work.edall day till sun.~dovvr~ or as~ long- as we could

: ~ see. ~7e didn‘t git nach- time off, ‘cept maybe a day at Christmas. ~

-	- “No, dewhite folks didn‘t learn us to read and write. We

had no school arid no church in slavery time, but some o~ de nig~er&

	was made to~ ~o to de white folks ‚ church and sit in de back $eat.

	‚ - de Yankees was bad, Dey burn ‘t everything in dei.r way, ; and. sioIe cattle; bu~ dey didn‘t come near our place.“

$ourcei Mary John~son.(O5), Newberry, S.C.
~	Interviewer: G.L. $uimaer, Newberry, 8.C. (9/3O/37~)