Project 1885 -~1-‘
District ~
Spartenburg, S.C.
May 29, 1937



FOLK-LORE:	EX—SLAVE ~


It1 was born about 1846, ‘cause I was in


de war and was 19 years old. when de war was over. I went to Charleston with my master, Ros Atwood, my mistress‘s brother. My mistress was Mrs. Laura Rutherford and my master at home was Dr. Thomas Rutherford. We was on Morris Island.

	“My father. was Allen Rutherford end my mother Barbara Rutherfôrd. My daddy had come frxn 0hili to this COUfltl71 was a harness maker, and belonged awhile to Nichols. We had a good house or hut to live in, and my work was to drive eows till I was old ‘nough to work in de fields, when I was 13. Then I -plowed, hoed cotton, end hoed corn ~‘til1 last year of war and denwent to Charléston.

“Mas te r paid us no money fo r work. W~

could hunt and fish, and got lots» of gam~ around there. We had dogs but our master didn‘t like hounds.

“Col. U~z~on Rutherford, doct‘s son, had


me for a “pet“ on the place. They had overseers who was sometimes bossy but they wouldn‘t allow dem to whip me. One old nigger named ‘learn‘, vtho come from Africa, was whipped mighty bad one day. The padderollers whip rae one night when I went off to git a pair of shoes for an old lady and didn‘t git a pass. I was

16 years old then.

~	~ !?Dootor Rutherford had several farms — I


reckon around 2,000 acres of ~ land. • We Id‘ t have church nor