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!OLK~LORE ~	390065	Edited by :
Spartanb urg Dist • 4		~1mer Turnage
May 25, 1937

STORIES PROM EX..~SUVES


	“I ani bad-.sick woman, in bed and can‘t hardly talk and t t ‘member m. I wa$ born near Broad River • in de Blair

$ection. I belonged in slavery to de Blair ~ami1y. My mudder and papa was Grace and Samuel Blair, and dey belonged to Capt. Blair. When dey was sold, I wa.~ put in de house wid a good f‘ree ni~er woman to raise me and to atay ~til1 de war was over. Den I come to de Blair house, and tielped around de house. My sisters could card, epin and weave, and I helped dem wid it. I didn‘t have but one dress. When lt got dirty, I went down to de creek arid washed it and put it against de lima to dry, but I had to put it back on before it got good dry.

~	•1 got old~ enoti~h, I worked in de field, hoe1ri~

and picking cotton.“	.


Source:	Eraollrie Satterwhite (82), Newberry, s.c.
Interviewer:	G.L~ Samiaer, Newberry, S.C. May 19, 1937