Project #1655 .
~Ieury Grant
Co1~thia, S. C.	390378	2M3



~TtrNIUs ~UI&TTLEBAUM

EX—SL~~VE 84 Y~EARS OLD.



	~Juxiius ~uatt1ebawn lives with his grandson, a short distance south of the Guignard Brick Factory, in the town of New Brookiand, S. C. 11e is

partially capable of self«support from what work and produce he is able to
pick up around the City Mar~et in Columbia.	~.

	“Well, sir, you want to talk to me ‘bout theiii good old days back yon~
der in slavery time ‚ does you ? I call them good old		‚ ~ cause I has never

had as much since. I has worked harder since de war betwixt de North and de South than I ever worked under n~r n~.rster and missus. I was ~‚ist a small boy while de war was gwine on, but I was big ‘nough to see and know what went on dere on de plantation ai]. right.

	ttI was born on Marster Jim Quattlebaum‘s plantation over dore in Sa.


luda County. He had ‘bout sixty-five slaves in all, countin‘ de chillun. My marster wouldn‘t have no overseer, ‘cause he say overseers would whip his nig— gera and he didn‘t ‘low nobody, white or black, to do dat. If his niggers had to be whipped, he was gwine to do dat hiaself and then they wouldn‘t be hurt xmzch. ~.rster lak to see his slavé.s happy and singin‘ ‘bout de place. If‘ he ever heard any of them quarrelin‘ wid each other, he would holler at them and say: ‘SiE~ Us ain‘t got no time to fusa on dis place.‘

	“~rster lek he th‘am, ‘specially in de fall of de year when it fust git cool. Us used to have big corn shuokin‘s on de plantation at night, ‘long ‘bout de i\ist of November of every year. Ml de corn was hauled from de fields and put

iii	two or three big piles in de barnyard and de slaves would git ‘round them, sing and shuck de corn. De slave women would hang buckets of raw tar afire on