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	Interview of Mrs. Della }~arrie	~	~	-~. ~ ~.	. \	~
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	By ~— süač~~ B~d	\~ ~‚ ~	.~ .
	February 5, 1937	~	S ~

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I don‘t know just how old I is. Muiua sent/~ne to private school wid white

clii I lun f0 ‚ one week . I wa~ 13 years old at de time uh Lee ~ a surrender. I be long to Petez‘ or Bi ily Buck Turnbull ?Iarrenton, N. . Put this down. My mother and ~ family. all belong to Peter Buck as his slaves. We didn‘t work until after the war; then we cazi~e ~t~Fitersburg. I vient to dancing 8chool wid the white folks ~id can dance any kind of dance sets. My father was a muaicianer. He belonged to John Carthan, in ~Varrenton, N. O. In dein days you had to take your Mster~e and Mi Btees ‚ name. In slavery tinie when a slave married he had to ask his Moster and Mistess. ~ . . S

	“We never went to church. We used to hear de bells ringing loud, baby, yes, clear and strong. No,never seer~‘Sunday school, and the first tiziie I went in a church I looked all around~and baby, I thought dat I was in heaven. It wasn‘t long, Miss Sue, before I got ‘l~geon, and, yes, I jined~church, 15 years old I wuz. Never will forget the time, or dat place. Den I lived here~ith an ant, xnuna‘s sister, who was name d Kate ~1i I llama • Her husband wuz my unc ‚ arid he worked and die d at de ~Yhite House in Washington City. ~ ‚ S

	t, I don‘t know de name of de President he worked for, but you can find dat out on dem books. You know you young folks calls t.mi records.

	“Yes child I‘m proud of my age never gave no body no trouble.

	.	I haire 8 children dead and now only one son livi~ig. Peter Turnbull was good. to al I hi s s lave s,‘ as far a s I know. Mama wa s a e ook in s lavexy time . She died in Petersburg, yes, right here in dis hole. • . . . S

S ~ ~	‘~No muma never‘oiiried any thing~a.lways rented and amt never owned nothing but ~ a paseel of.cbi~dren. S S S • • ‚ L

S ‚	“~Iy ~~a: wa~ a gerilune Indian. Some people day you•ca&t .own Indians. .1 don‘t ‚~. knoj~zow cum, but I do know she was owned by these people, but ehe surely was an
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