The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-01-25

log, board or nail misplaced. It will
comprise the following houses The
mauaion, or masters house called by the
then slaves the great house, The
dwelling houses of the negroes will con-
sist of the old original log cabins, with
stick and dirt chimneys, called the quar-
ters, all furnished with their old and
very odd trappings, made mostly with
their own hands. The other houses will
consist of the cotton or giuhouse, the
quaint and cumbersome old cotton press,
with its immense long levers, which have
now passed out of use, the corn crib, the
smoke or mesthouse, the general farm or
workhouse, containing ali the old and
rude appliances for making the clothe to
clothe the negroes, viz: the loom for
weaving, the spinning wheels, warping
bars, cards for cardiug the cotton rolls, in
fact every appliance that was then used
will be presented in full operation during
the Fair.
"We will chow The cotton and rice as
growing in the fields and the genuine
Southern mules pulling round the levers
which propel the machinery, separating
the lint from the cotton seed. From the
ginhouse the cotton will be taken 20 the
cotton screw, and put 10 the regulation
bales of 500 pounds, ready 10 ship to
market. In front of the corn crib will
be large pile of corn in the shuck, and
the negroes will coagregate around it
and exhibit one of their original, attrac.
tive and most enjoyable to them Of all
plantation sports, genuine negro corn
shucking, never seen anywhere else;
where they will sing their corn shucking
songs and when they find red ear of
Germ, they will hand around the Jug and
all take drink-as they term 1t taking
q "horn," and then wrestling, dancing
and other antics around the corn pile will
present such scenes as we're never wit
messed anywhere else, and have become
things of the past.
"The negroes will have their 'possum
and coon dogs-a distinct breed-and
there will be seen the 'possum' as brought
in from the night hunt, with his tail in
split stick, and carried over the negro's
shoulder, after which will come the
cooked 'possum and tater,' the negro'a
ideal dish. There will be placed off in
ore corner of the yard, the most epjoya.
Bile of all houses to the negro-the frol-
licking house, as they term 1t, where
they all meet on Saturday nights and
holidays, dressed in their Sunday best,
and have their singing and dansing and
plays of all kinds. Here you will see
some of the most original and highly
interesting sights ever Witnessed, and the
music of the fiddle, banjo, bones and
tambouriue accompanied by their vocal
music will be grsndly wonderful and
strangely melodious, such as yeu can
hear nowhere else on earth. The dane
ing by the men and women, old and
young, las negro never gets too old to
dance) will thrill spectators with delight.
Same of their modes Of dancing, as In old
slavery times on the plantation, consist
ing of the pigeon wing dog trot,'
'buzzard aop,' etc., etc., will be exceed.
ingly interesting.
"There will be many other true and
attractive features, toe numerous TO
mention, and tho whole will be 80 real,
when our representative men from the
original slave states visit the Fair and
SEQ the Southern slave plantation, as
here represented, they will verify the
presentation as honestly true to the most
minute detail, and what they say will be
the authority tn the entire world. What
we have now to present to the present
generation will soon be oblitefated. The
old cotton plantation during slavery
times, the old original slaves, the gin
house and cotton screws are steadily
passing out and will soon become obso
lete, and all the coming generation will
know of them is what they receive from
books.
"Here you will Bee it in its real,
patural, living state.
"There have been hundreds of repre-
seutations of slavery as it existed in the
Southern States in the way of shows,
negro minstrelu, tableaux, descriptive
books, etc., by parties who ia many in-
stances never saw slave plantation.
What We will here produce will bo in
every sense of the word au absolute
reality-the actual thing itself, which
very few of this generation ever saw. If
you will reflect one moment you can very
readily see that our exhibition, taking it
in all its historic and national bearings,
will excite nore comment and interest
than any exhibit that can possibly be
presented from any other quarter of the
world.
"Our country, from it's foundation has
been greatly interested and troubled by
this one great question-African slavery.
Not only our own country but the entire
civilizsd world, and from the little spark
it kindled into an immense fame that
came very near consuming the greatest
and grandest country aud people on this
earth.
"In making this historical exhibition
of the old Southern slave plantation as it
really and truthfully existed in every
detail, the farm or great house to be used
is the Identical one in which General
Johnston surrendered to General Sher-
man in April, 1866. As memorable
war relic, this will excite great amount
of interest, commemorating, as it does, an
event which consummated the actual