Project 1885...1
POLKLORE	3SO14i	Edited by~ ~	63
Spartanbur8 Dist.4	.	~	Elmer Turna~ge
July 15, 1937
	Stories Prom Ex.~.S1aves	~ ~


	Dick has an upward stare all the time, and holds his head as i~ he were always looking up into the sky, corisequerit-.~ ly he has won the sobriquet, ‘Look~Jp‘.

	“Everybody dat knows me knows dat I was born on de Jim Gist plantation, and it used to jine Mr. Winsmith‘s arid de Glenn Peak plantations. Mr. ~Vinsmith was a doctor. Marse Jim sho was a good man to his darkies.

	ttMy rather was named Ned Jones arid he belonged to Marse

Berry Jones. His plantation was across de forest, next to

West Springs. Mother was Lucy Gj5t, belonging to Marse Jim.

My parents had de Th11owin~ chilluris: i~sther, Relia, ~phriarn,

Griggs, John, Pen±‘ield, me arid Aichard. Dey married and so

we was all ~ores.

	“De slaves inde Œist Q,uarter lived well. .~l1 nigger chilluns in dat quarter had very sznall tasks until dey was seventeen or ei~Irteen years old. De quarter had nine houses. Dere was $eventeen hundred acres in our plantation; or dat is, de part where we lived and worked. We livedin one-.room log cabins dat had to be well kept all of de time.

	“All de chilluns in de quarter was well fed, clothed, housed and doctored until dey was strong and well developed younguns~ Den dey was give tasks and learnt to do what de master and de mistree~ thought dey would do well at.