Project #1655
~T. W. Dixon
	Winnaboro, S. C.	390334 . .	42


TOM ROSBORO

EX~~~SLAVE 79 YEARS OLD.



	Torn Rosboro lives with his daughter, 3~ste11e Perry, In a three-room frame house, on Cemetery Street, Winnsboro, S. C. The house stands on a half..acre plot that is used for ~ardentruck. Estelle owns the fee in the house and lot. Tom peddles the truck, eggs, and chickens, in the town and the suburban Winnsboro mill village.

	tIMy pappy was name Tom, just laic I is name Toni. My mammy was name Sarah

but they didn‘t b‘long to de same marster. Pappy b‘long to old Marse Eugene McNaul. )&7im~r b‘ long to old Marse John Propst. De ownership of de child fo1~ lowed de mammy in them days. Dat throwed me to be a slave of old Marse John Propst.

	“My young marsters was naine Marse Johnnie, Marse Clark, Marse Floyd, and. Marse Wyatt • I had two young mis ses • Mise Elizabeth marry a McElroy and Miss Mamie marry a L&ndeoker • You know 1~1arse Ernest Propst dat run dat ladies ‚ garment store and is a member of de Winnsboro Town Council? Yes? Well, dat is one of Marse Floyd Propst chillu.n.

‚t I hear mamu~ï say dat daddy‘ s mistress was name Miss Eirm~a but her mistress

and ii~~ mistres s was name Mis s Margaret • My daddy have to have a pass every time he come to see mamnty. Sometime they give him a general pass for de year. Some-‘ time him lose de pass and then such a gwine on you never did see de lak. Make more miration (.hullaba~.oo) over it than if they had lost one of de chillun. They was soared de patarollere (patrollers) wo~ild oonte ketch him, and lay de leather whip on his naked back. fie wouldn‘t dare stay long. Him would go back soon, not on de big road but through de woods and fields, so as not to meet de patarollers.