Project 1885...1
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	Spartanbur~ ~ Dist.4	U~J3‘~$~ .	Elmer Turna~e
May 18, 1937

STORIES PROM EX-~SLAVES

~tAunttt Nina Scot sat on her front oorch. 5he was drinkiri~

some liquid from a bottle which she said vvould help her trouble. Being short o±~ breath, she was riot able to talk very much. She said that she was very small at the time she was set free. “~y 2iiarster arid his folks did riot treat me like a ni~,‘ger, ~‚ she said, if they treated rae like they did other white folks.“ She said that she arid her mother nad belori~ed to Dr. Shipp, ~ho taughta t Wof±~ord College, that they had come here from Chapel Hill, N.Q. arid that shevvas a tarheel negro. She said that white people it~ slavery days hai t~o nurses, one for the small children and one ±or the older ones. Ityes sir, those were certainly eine people that lived on the

Campus during those days.(Wofiord Col. Campus) ~Vhen the ‘raid‘ came on, people were hiding tl~iirigs all about their places.‘1 She rern.. ~erred to the Yankee soldiers who came to Soartanburg after the close ot the Civil War. ?‘î~~Jy mother hid. the turkeys and tDld me where she had hidden them~‘ Dr. Shipp came up to Nina one day and a~ked her where the turkeys were hidden. She told him they were hidden behind a clump~c~‘f small trees, and pointed them out to him.

.	. r?Well,ft he said, “tell your mother to g~ and hide thera somewhere else and not to tell you about it. you would tell the Yankees just where those turkeys wre hidden.“ Aunt Nina recalls that Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Duncan (formerly of Wofford College) had a habit of get~ ting a slice oi~ bread arid butter for all the neighboring children (black or white) whenever their nurses brought them to their home.

SOURCE:	“&unt“ Nina Scott, .~6O N. Řonver8e St., Spartanbur~, s.C.
Interviewer:	P.S. Dupre, Spartanburg Office, Dist.4
(May 17, 1937)