Project 1885	—1‘.‘
District ~7~4		3S01	~
Spartanburg,	S.C.			1)
June 7, 1937




FOLK~LOR ~ : f‘~I—SLAVES


	ttI was born in Spartanhur~ County, S.C., near

Glenn	Springs. I can‘t ‘member slavery or de war, but my ma who
and pa/was Green i?oster and his wife, Mary Posey Foster, always

said I.was a big gal when the war stopped, when freedom come. ttwe belonged to Seth Posey who had a hie; farm

there. He was a good man, but sure made us work. I worked in the fields when I was small, hoed and picked cotton, hoed corn. They didn‘t give us no money for it. All we got was a place to sleep and a little to~t. The big man had a c~ood garden and give us something from it. He raised loads of hogs, to eat and to sell, 11e sold lots of them. The young fellows hunted rabbits, possums, squirrels, wild turkeys, partridges, doves, and went fishing. The Master‘s wife, MISS i\Iancy, was good to us. She had one son, WI 1 hem.

	“Yes, I ‘member my ma telling us tbOut ~he padder-.


rollers. They	would ride around, whipping niggers. ItMy ma said her step—mother sold her. Sonietiines


they would take crowds of slaves to Mississippi, taking away mothers from their infant babies, leaving the babies on the floor.

	“Ne always shuck corn and shell it at night, on moon-.light nights we pick cotton. On Saturday afternoons we had frolics, sometimes frolics ‘till Sunday daylight, then sleep all day Sunday.