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	 Spartanburg, Dist.4	~		Elmer Turriage
Feb. 4, 1938


STOIUES ~OM EX-~SLAVES


	?tMarch lb, 1862 is de date I allus takes ~vheri. folks axes how old is you. Dats de best, to follow one date, den rio argument dont
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	1tSome seed it powerThl hard in slavery, others never seed it so bad. Dat pends onyou a lot, den i~ tpe~d5 on dein dat you stays wid. It still like dat everywhar dat I is been, but I aint been no Lurther dan Spartaaburg swine north, and to Lyless Ford gwirie south.

~	 Pr9in a wee bi.tty bab~dey teach xrLe to serve. Befo you serves God you is ~ot to know how to serve man. De Bible speaks of us as servants of de Lawd. Niggers can serve Hirn better dan white folks,- ~ kai$e dat is all deydoes if dey stays whar dey belongs. Young folks andchllluribeing raised up real biggity like dey is now, dey cant serve nothing, kaise if you cant serve your earthly father, how is you gwine to serve your Heavenly Father?

	De big plantation arid house whar Mr. Jirmnie Jeters sons stay is whar 3~ first seed earthly lieht. Dat, place still look fine, and. it look Line den, too. When I was 8 years old I started out in de field, afo dat I did. jes what all little ni~er boys did, nothing but eat and sleep and play and have a bi~ time wid de little white boys. Lots of my playmates, both white and black, doae gone on nQW. Some done cone to de bad place and soznedone done to Heaven, jest aint rio use

talkir~, dats sho nuff de truth.	~

: .  ~ ~ ~ War was ra8in~ ail rouiad Charleston and Colunibia when I

come in dis world so dey says, Yankees carn~ped in haLf mile of Santuc.


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