Pace 3
project. 1885-1
POLKLORE	Edited by:‘
$partaribur~ JJlst.4	Elmer Turnage
July 15, 1937

	“When dey got on board de ship dey were tied until de ship got to sea; den dey was let loose to walk about ‘cause dey couldn‘t jump overboard. On de ship dey had many strange things to eat, and dey liked dat. Dey was give enough red ±‘lannel to wrap around demselves. She liked it on de boat. Granny Judith born Millie, and Millie born me. No, I ain‘t never had no desire to ~o to A.frica, kaise I gwlne to stay whar I is.

	“Uncle Tom corne ‘long wid Granny Judit~i. Two women-. fo‘ks come wid dem, aunt Ohany and Daphne. Aunt (.~hany and ~unt ~aphne was bought by de Frees dat had a plantation near Joriesville. Uncle Tom and ‘Granny‘ was bought by Marse Jim Gist, but dere marsters allus ‘lowed dem to visit on July 4th and ~hr1stmas. When dey talk, nobody didn‘t know what dey was talking about. My granny never could speak good like I can. She talk half ifrican, and all African when she git bothered. No, I can‘t talk no African.

	“After I was seventeen I did all kinds o±~ hoeing arid plowing and other~farm work fer ray marster. He said dat by dis time, his little niggers‘ bones had done got hard enough fer dem to work. We had a ‘driver‘, a older person, dat showed us how to do everything right. Marse never let him over—work or hurry us. We liked him ~~‘Uncle July Gist‘, we called him and dat was his real name, too. His wife, ~nty Sara, was good to us; dey both burie4 at Woodson‘s Chapel Baptist Church.