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Folklore
Spartanbur~, Dist .4
Oct. 15, 1937
EdIted by.: 27~ Elmer Turna~e
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	“I live with my children on a farm in Newberry County. I . - have a good place to live arid plenty to eat. I work on the farm. I

noved from Chester County in the year 1898, t~~e year the Spanish~ ~merican ~ar started.

	‚ fI was corn in Chester County.~ in ~pri1 13~5O.~ Ly parents belonged to the Pratts, but ray .~iother be1on~ed to the Kenriedys be~

S	lore the married. They went to Robert IC Kennedy and v~as ~ith him as his slaves. lie v~as a ~ooã rI~~in but h~ ~ife i~as mean. She sure could ‘cuss out‘ slaves ii they made her mad. She whipped me once when I was a small boy. I couldn‘t do much ~ith her. My daddy‘s

S	fa~rni1y be1on~~ed to the pratts whö lived sev~en :nfles from Chester. They v~as good folks to slaves. Thei always had lots to eat from their bi~ ~arden. The ~~hite Loiks ~ent hunting, ana it v~as said

S somewild turkeys v~as around Price‘sMountain, about nine miles south of Chester. S

	“7e ~ot up before day arid went ~to work and worked till L‘~Ly mammy cooked ~o-r the family; arid one da~~ the mistress at her arid hi± her on the head with a coffee paddle. We all day on Saturdays but didn‘t work on Sundays. On Christ..~ had a holliday arid had frolics and bi~ eats.

	‘~The patrollers once cauÉ~ht my daddy out at night ~ithoüt

	a pass arid whipped hirn a little, just Lor mischief. He was always S allowed to ~O about where he wanted togo without a pass, but next

~	‚ •time he asked Miss Poily for a ~paper to take out with him.



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