Project 1655
Genevieve W. Chandler		FOLKLORE
Marrells Inlet	.		92
Georgetown County, S. C.		I~ge 2



EX-‘SL&VE STORY (u~cr~ ~BE lANCE - ~ ) Continued



	S Some iv people run away from Sandy Islant. Go Oaks sea—shore and ~gno1ia Beach and take rowboat and gone out and ~joiti with the Yankee. Dem crowd never didn‘t come back, .

	Any slave Irun way or didn‘t done task, put ‘ein in barn and least cut they giv. ~em (with lash) been twenty.‘five to fifty. Simply cause than weak

and couldn‘t done task — couldn‘t done taski ‘Give ‘em less ration. to

booti Cut ‘eiii down to

I qt. molasses

1 lb. meat

I pk. corn for . week

	Good ~ster all right. Give plenty to eat. Reason~ble task. Task dem time one~fourth to one half‘ acri. Ditching man ten compass. Got to slush ‘di out, Got to bail that water out till you kin see track.

	.	All deii rice—field been nothing but swei~ip. Slavery people out kennel (canal ) and dig ditch and cut down woode ~ and dig ditch through the raw woods. Al] been clear up for plant rice by slavery people.

	Beat my Pa and ~ to death and turn me loosel Ought to take care ‘o n~J I send ofT ni~r 35 et. fust (first) time, next time twenty-five cents I put what littli I have in it. Am ‘t hear no answer. Some ten or fifteen head round here send off blank aixi don‘t get no hearings Take what little I have.