Project #1655
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Winzieboro, s. C.	33030 ~.	~.	51
	BZNJkMIN RUS3~LL





	n ~ was born fourteen ~ii1es north of Chester, S. C. the property of Mrs. ~‘ebecca Nence. After eighty-eight years ‚ .L have a vivid roc olloction of her oynipathy and the ideal relations ~he maifltained with her slaves.

	3, My father was just Baker ‚ my mother just Mary • My father was bought out of a. drove of slaves from Virginia. ~ have been to~4 my mo~ thor was born on t1i~ Youagblood place. (Youngblcod uarn~ of my mi~tro~ pso:~lo i~~•i York Uounty.) My father was a slave of a ~œ. itusseU arid lived two or three miles fron the Nance place, where mother lived. ~te could only visit her on a written pass. A~s he was religiously inclined, dutiful and faithful as a slave, my mother encouraged the relation that included a slave marriage between my father and mother. My mother in time, had a log house for herself and children. *e had beds rna~e by the plantatio~i°a carpenter. Aa a boy I remember p1o~i~ from sun to sun, with cia hour‘s intermission for dinner, and f‘eeding the horses.

	$3 Money? Yes, sornetinies white folks ex~d visitors would give me ~oppar~ ‚ 3-cent pieces ‚ arid once or twice dimes • Used them to buy extra clothing for Sundays and fire crackers and candy, at Christmas. We had good food. (n the busy seasons on the farm the niistre3s saw to it that the slaves were properly fed, the food cooked right and served from the big kitchen. we were given plenty of milk and sometimes butter. ï• wore permitted to have a fowl-house for chickens, separate froia the white folks. *e imre r.

clothes end stout brogan shoes in winter; went barefooted from April until

November and wore cotton clothes in sujnri~r, The meeter and aora of the