Stories me Ex-.~S1aves ~(L~e~arider Soai~)
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	“h1~ took a week to take de cotton boat from Chester to Columbia. Six slaves ha~d1ed de ~iat~boat. Dere was six, as I said, de boatman, two oarsmen, two steerraen and. an extra man. De steer... men was just belaind de boatma~i. Dey steered wid. 1on~ poles on de way up de river arid paddled dov~n de river. De two oarsmen was hind dem. Dey used to poIe;~, too, going up1and padd1in~ going down. Seventy—five or eighty bales was carried at a time. Dey wéighed around three hundred pounds apiece. In Columbia, de wharfs Was on de Congree b.nks. Fer de cotton, we ~t all kfnds o~ supolies to carry home. De boat was loaded wid sugar arid coffee coming back. on Broad E~iver ~ passed by Woods Perry, Fish Darn Perry, Henderson~ Perry and. Hendersons Island and some others, but dat is all I re-. collect. We unloaded at our own Lerry, called Scaife Perry.

	~	“I split rails fer fences. On Christmas we had coffee, sugar and biscuit fer breakfast.“


5ource~ Alexander Sca~fe (82), Box 104, Pacolet, S.C.
Interviewer:	Caldwell Sims, Union, S.C.
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