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Spartanburg Dist.4	~~VLQ~t	Elmer Turria~e
June 15, 1937

STORIES PROM EX-~SLAVB~S

	“I‘m living on Mr. ‘Bußael Emrnitt‘s place. I never did nothing but drive cows when I was a little boy growing up. ~iiss Own and Miss Lizzie Rice was Mar$e Alex‘s sisters. arse Alex done died, arid dey was my mistre8s. Dey tuck arid sold de plan-. ~tation a~o dey died, here ‘bout twenty years~a~o. Dat whar my ma found me and den she died,

	“My ~randparerits, Jane and Peter Stevens, brung nie up. I was a little farm boy and driv cows fer de overseer, Jim Blalock. lvliss Oum was really Miss Ann. Miss Ann had‘a hundred niggers, herself, and Miss Lizzie had might nigh dat many, asides dem what Marse Alex done left ‘em. De overseer try to act rough out o? Miss Ann‘s sight, and she find it out and set him down a peg.

	“Miss Jane have our shirts made on de looms. She let us

vvear long shirts and go in our shirt tails, an~ us had to keep ‘em clean, too, ‘cause Miss Jane never like no dirt around her. Miss Jane have • charge of de whole house and e~erything along wid it.

	“Us had three hundred hogs to tend to, two hundred yellings and. heiiers, and Lawdy knows how many sheep arid goats. Lis fed dem things and kept ‘em fat. ~Vhen butchering time come, us stewed out the mostest lard arid. we had enough sid.e-.meat to supply the plantation the year round. Our wheat land ~vas ferti-~ lized wid load aster load o~ cotton seed. De vvheat us raised was de talk of de country~side. ‘Sides dat, dare was rye, oats