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hat she could get fer Sunday." "Did you work on Saturday evenings?" "Some of de white people made dem work on Saturday evening. I had a uncle when white people come by going to church he hoeing his rice. Dey didn't want him work on Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Gamble tell dem he gwine to chop his rice on Sunday." "What did you do on Sunday?" "Go to church." "Christmas day?" "I don't remember what dey give on Christmas day. My family got clothes." "What did you do at a wedding or funeral among the slaves?" "Just say got a wife, ain't married. If anybody ded everything stop." "What games did you play as a child?" "I don't know what all I played." "Do you know any funny stories?" "No, sir, I used to tell my grands things." "Did you ever see any ghosts?" "I ain't believe in it, but I see dem. Jest pass by and dey want bother you. Don't know where dey come from. Dey look like people." "You don't believe in them?" "No, sir, but I know one thing, dey say fox gwine mad. Say cat gwine mad but dat ain't so. I ain't scared of nothing." "You are not scared at night?" "When de moon shining. Moon ain't shine might fall and cripple. When we holler voice way back dere." "When the slaves became sick, who tended to them?" "White people tended to dem. Use medicine." "Do you make medicine out of herbs?" "No, sir, don't make it." "Did you ever see anybody wear a ten-cent piece around the ankle?" "I see dem wear it, but I ain't know what fer." "What do you remember about the war that brought you freedom?" "I know just as good when peace declared. Gun rolled in dat direction. Must be guns. Cook say roll thunder roll and I say de sun shine it ain't gwine rain. I wuz too little to know but my sister say every man and every woman got to work for demselves." "What did your master say?" "I ain't know what master say, he single man and didn't talk much." "Did you stay with him the year after freedom?" "No, he didn't treat my mother right." "Any schools for Negroes?" "Pretty good time before schools." "Did the slaves buy any land?" "No land bought." "Do you remember your wedding?" "I member jest as good 'bout my wedding. I married on Thursday night. Some white people from Kingstree and different ones come and pile it up and when I get all dem presents some one stick fire and burn it all down." "Whom did you marry?" "John Scott." "Do you have any children?" "One
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