Project 1885 ~-1~		~
District #4		%
Spa.rtanburg, 3. C.	330121
June 7, 1937




FOLK—LORE : EX-SLAVE


	‘II was born about 1849 in the Dutch Fork section of Newberry County, S. C. I was slave of Ivey Suber and his good wife. My daddy was Bill Suber and my marruny was Mary Suber. I was hired by ~arse Suber as a nurse in the big house, and I waited on my mistress when she was sick, and was at he~ bed whén she died. I had two sisters and a brother arid when we was sold theywent to i]tr. Suberts sister and I stayed with him.

	“My master was good to his slaves. He ~ive them plenty to eat, good place to sieop and plenty of clothes. The young men would hunt lots, rabbits, possums, and birds. My white folks had a big garden and we had eats from it. They was good cooks, too, and lived good. We card and spin and weave our own clothes on mistress‘s spinning wheels.

	“Marse Suber had one overseer who was good to us. We went to work at sün-up and worked ‘till sun—down, none of us worked at night. We sometimes got a whipping when we would&t

work or do wrong, but it wasn‘t bad.

	tP~ffe never learned to read and write. 1TTe had ‘no


church and no sohoolon the plantation, but we could go to the white folk‘ s church and sit in the ga1ler~,r. Some of us was made to go, and had to walk 10 miles. Of ‘course, we never thought much about walking that far. I joined the church because I was converted ; I th ink eve rybody ought to . jôin the church.