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River where dey camped one night. Den dey turned me loose arid. told. me to git. I run as fast as I could. I followed de setting suri, de road runnin~ towards de sun all de time, and 8ot home about night.

.	“~$ince freedom is corne de niggers have worked mostly on

farms as share-~croppers; some as renters vvid deir own crops to raise.

	“De present generation of‘niggers ain‘t got much sense. Dey work when dey want to, and have deir own way about it. De old nig~‘ers was learned to work v~hen dey was litt~1e.

	“I don‘t knoi~ nothing about de Nat Turner Rebellion. I never know‘d but one old nigger dat come from Virginia, old Ellen

Abner. She lived below Prosperity fer a long time, in de Stoney Hills.

	“Yes sir, I tries to live right arid git along wid every~ body.“


Söurce:	S~j~ls (83), Newberry, S.C. ~
Interviev~er:	G.L. Summer, Newberry, S.C. 8/23/37.