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P1ioebe Faucette
±~ampton County

MAMIE RILEY

Ex-Slave

	“Aunt Mainie‘s“ hair is entirely white. She lives in a neat duplex brick house with one of her husband‘s relatives, a younger woman who is a cook for a well established fsmily in Estill, S. C. When questioned about the times~.before the war, she replied:
	“Yes‘m, I kin tel]. you tbout slav‘ry time, tcause I is one

myself. I don‘ remember how old I is. But I remember when de Yankees come through I bin ‘bout so high. (She put her hand out about 3~ feet from the floor. ) We lived on Mr. Henry Sol~ onions‘ place - a big place. Mr. Henry Solornons had a plenty of people - three rows of house, or four.

	t‘ when de Yanke es corne through Mr • Solonions ‚ pla ce I wuz right dere. ~de wuz at our house in de street. I see it all. My ma tell me to run; but I ain‘t think they‘d hurt me. I see tem come down de street — all of ‘em on horses. Oo - h, dey wuz a heap of ‘emt I couldn‘t count ‘em. My daddy run to de woods - he an‘ de other men. Dey ran right to de graveyard. Too mucha bush been dere. You couldn‘t see ‘em. Stay in de woods three days.

	“Dey went to my daddy‘s house an‘ take all. My daddy ran. My mother an‘ my older sister wuz dere. My ma grab a quilt off de bed an‘ coverherseif all over wid it - head an‘ all. And set in a chair dere by de fire. She tell us to git in de bed but I am‘ t git in. An~ she yell out when she hear ‚ em