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     YES SIR, I AM TALL AND SLIM LIKE A SAPLING, MAYBE THAT IS A GOOD REASON I L
IVE SO LONG.
     I HEARD DADDY READ ONE TIME FROM THE BIBLE ABOUT A MAN HAVING STRENGTH OF Y
EARS IN HIS RIGHT HAND AND HONOR AND RICHES IN HIS LEFT HAND, BUT WHENEVER I OPE
N THAT LEFT HAND THERE IS NOTHING IN IT.  EXPECT THAT PROMISE IS COMING THOUGH,
WHEN THE OLD AGE PENSION MONEY GETS DOWN HERE FROM WASHINGTON.  WHEN YOU EXPECT
 IT IS COMING&  THE PALM OF MY HAND SURE BEGINS TO ITCH FOR THAT GREENBACK MONEY
.  SO YOU THINK IT IS OWN THE WAY&  WELL, THANK GOD FOR THAT BUT IT SEEM ALMOST
 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.  NOW I WILL QUIT ASKING QUESTIONS AND JUST SIT HERE jND2sM
OKE AND ANSWER, WHILST YOU DO THE PUTTING DOWN ON THE PAPER.
     YES SIR,  I WAS BORN RIGHT HERE IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WINNSBORO, ON TH
E CLIFTON PLACE.  THE DAY I WAS BORN,  IT BELONG TO MY MASTER, DAIVD GAILLARD.
 MISS LOUISA, THAT IS MASTER DAVIDS WIFE,  ALLOW ME ONE DAY,-NED mONT  OU EVnR C
ALL THE MASTER OLD MASTER AND DONT YOU EVER THINK OF ME  AS OLD MISS.  I PROMISE
D HER THAT I KEEP THAT ALWAYS IN MIND, AND I AINT GOING TO CHANGE, THOUGH SHE GO
NE ON TO HEAVEN AND IS IN THE CHOIR SINGING AND SINGING THEM CHANTS THAT SHE COU
LD SING SO PRETTY AT SAINT JOHNS, IN WINNSBORO.  YOU SEE, THEY WAS EPISCOPALIANS
.  THERE WAS NO HARD SHELL BAPTIST AND NO SOFT HELL METHODIST IN THEIR MAKE UP.
  IT WAS ALL GLORY, BIG GLORY, GLORY IN THE VERY HIGHEST RUNG OF JACOBS LADDER,
WITH OUR WHITE FOLKS.
     WELL, HOW I AM RAMBLING.  YOU SEE THERE WAS MASTER DAVID AND MISTRESS LOUIS
A, THE KING BEE AND THE QUEEN BEE.  THEY HAD A PLANTATION DOWN ON THE SANTEE, IN
 THE LOW COUNTRY, SOMEWHERE ABOUT MONKS CORNER.  ONE DAY MASTER DAVID2 O !.T&AO
NE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE ACRES ON WATEREE CREEK.  HE ALSO BOUGHT TH
E CLIFTON PLACE, TO LIVE IN, IN WINNSBORO.  I CANT GET MY MIND BACK TO TELL YOU
WHAT I WANTS FOR YOU TO PUT ON THE PAPER.  EXCUSE ME, I FORGET EVERYTHING, TILL
YOU GET MY PEDIGREE DOWN.
     I DONE NAME MASTER DAVID AND MISTRESS LOUISA.  NOW FOR ,HE .HrLm
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S TOLD TO FRONT THE BOYS NAMES WITH MARSE AND THE YOUNG LADIES NAME WITH MISS.
NOW US CAN GO AND GET SOMEWHERE.
     WELL THERE WAS MISS ELIZABETH,  SHE MARRIED MISTER DWIGHT.  MISS MjRIA-MjRR
IED ANOTHER MISTER DWIGHT.  MISS KATE MARRIED MISTER BOB ELLISON, A SHERIFF.  HE
R GOT TWO CHILDREN IN COLUMBIA, MARSE DAVID AND MARSE DUBOSE ELLISON.  THEN FOR
THE BOYS,  THEY ALL WENT TO THE WAR.  MARSE ALLEY GOT KILLED.  MARSE DICK RISE T
O BE A CAPTAIN AND AFTER THE WAR MARRIED CONGRESSMAN BOYCES DAUGHTER, MISS
FANNIE.  MARSE IKE MARRIED AND LIVED IN THE LOW COUNTRY,  HE DIED ABOUT TWO YEAR
S AGO.  MARSE SAM MARRIED A MISS DUBOSE AND WENT WITH GENERAL WADE HAMPTON.
     MARSE SAMS SON CUT A CANAL THAT DIVIDES HALF AND HALF THE WESTERN PART OF T
HE WHOLE WORLD.  US NIGGERS WAS POWERFUL SCARED,  TILL MARSE DAVID GAILLARD TOOK
 HOLD OF THE BUSINESS.  WHY US SCARED&  WHY US FEARD THAT THE CENTER OF THE
BACKBONE OF THE WORLD DOWN THERE, WHEN CUT, WOULD TIPPLE OVER LIKE THE HALVES OF
 A WATERMELON AND EVERYBODY WOULD GO UNDER THE WATER IN THE OCEAN.  HOW COULD
 MARSE DAVID PREVENT IT&  US NIGGERS OF THE GAILLARD GENERATrON HAVE lONFIDnNCE
IN THE GAILLARD RACE AND US IS WILLING TO SINK OR SWIM WITH THEM IN WHATEVER THE
Y DO.  YOUNG MARSE DAVID PROPPED THE SIDES OF THE WORLD UP ALL RIGHT, DOWN THERE
, AND THEY NAMED A BIG PART OF THAT CANAL GAILLARD CUT, SO THEY DID.
     WELL,  I KEEP RAMBLING.  WILL I EVER GET TO MARSE HENRY, THE ONE THAT LOOKE
D AFTER AND CARED FOR THE SLAVES OF THE FAMILY MOST AND       BEST&  MARSE
HENRY MARRIED A MISS WHITE IN CHARLESTON.  HE ROSE TO BE CAPTAIN AND ADJUTANT
OF THE FIGHTING SIXTH REGIMENT.  AFTER THE WAR HE FIXED IT SO THE SLAVES STAYED
 ALL TOGETHER, ON THAT 1385 ACRES AND BUY THE PLACE AS COM ON TENAN \,OON ,HE IN
STALLMENT PLAN.  HE SENT WORD FOR THE HEAD OF EACH FAMILY TO COME TO WINNSBORO.
 US HAVE TO HAVE NAMES AND REGISTER.  MARSE HENRY COMMAND.  US-OBEY.  cHAT f S&A
 GREAT DAY.  MY DADDY ALREADY HAD HIS NAME, TOM.  HE WAS THE DRIVER OF THE BUGGY
, THE CARRIAGE, AND ONE OF THE WAGONS, IN SLAVERY.  MARSE HENRY WROTE HIM A NAME
 ON A SLIP AND SAID TOM AS YOU NEVER WALKED-MUCH, I-NjME  OU6f  kn .
     IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE DADDY, WHO WAS THE ONLY THAT COULD READ jND wRITE,-R
ODE DOWN TO COLUMBIA AND CAME BACK WITH A COMMISSION IN HIS COAT POCKET FROM THE
 REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR, TO BE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
 A-JUDGE.  DAN, I GIVE YOU A ROMAN-NjME,-POMPEY. -POMPEY TuRnEDOUT TO BE A PREA
RRISON,  EDWARD CADES AND LOUIS BREVARD.  HE SAID LOUIS,  I GIVE YOU THE NAME OF
     MARSE HENRY LADLE OUT SOME GOLLIWHOPSHUS NAMES THAT DAY. 2SUCH  S CA SjR8HA
CHER AND I SEE YOUR GRANDPA, MARSE WILLIAM WOODWARD, IN THE GRAVEYARD WHEN UNCLE
 POMPEY PREACHED THE FUNERAL OF OLD UNCLE WASH MOORE.  TELL YOU ABOUT THAT IF I
 HAVE TIME.
     WELL, HE GAVE UNCLE SAM THE NAME OF SHADROCK.  WHEN HE REACHED UNCLE jLElK,
 HE ALLOWED I ADDS TO YOUR NAME ALECK, TWO FINE NAMES, A PREACHERS AND A SCHOLAR
S, PORTER RAMSEY.  ABOUT THAT TIME A LITTLE RUNT ELBOWED AND BUTTED HIS WAY RIGH
T UP TO THE FRONT AND SAID MARSE HENRY, MARSE HENRY$ I WANTS A BIG BULLDOZING NA
ME$  MARSE HENRY LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID YOU LITTLE SHRIMP, TAKE THIS THEN$  AND
 MARSE HENRY WROTE ON THE SLIP OF PAPER  MENDOZA J HERNANDEZ, AND READ IT-OUT-LO
UD.  THE LITTLE RUNT LAUGHED MIGHTY PLEASED AND SOME OF THEM HERNANDEZES ROUND H
ERE TO THIS DAY.
    -MY-MAMMY NAME WAS BESS,  MY GRANDDADDYS NAME WAS JUNE, pRjNmMjMM\S,RENEH,
BUT ALL MY BROTHERS ARE DEAD.  MY SISTERS CLERISSIE AND PHIBBIE ARE STILL LIVING
.  US WAS BORN IN A TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE, CHIMNEY IN THE MIDDLE, FOUR ROOMS
DOWN STAIRS AND FOUR UP STAIRS.  THERE WERE FOUR FAMILIES LIVING IN IT.  THESE W
ERE THE TOWN DOMESTICS OF MASTER.  HE HAD ANOTHER RESIDENCE ON THE PLANTATION AN
D A SET OF DOMESTICS,  BUT MY DADDY WAS THE COACHMAN FOR BOTH PLACES.
     THE GArLLjRD-QUjRTnRS WAS A LITTLE tOwN-LAIDOUT WITH STREETS WIDE ENOUGH F
OR A WAGON TO PASS THROUGH.  HOUSES WAS ON EACH SIDE OF THE STREET.  A WELL AND
 CHURCH WAS IN THE CENTER OF THE TOWN.  THERE WAS A GrN qO SE,BBjR S,STABLES, C
OW PEN AND A BIG BELL ON TOP OF A HIGH POLE AT THE BARN GATE.  THERE WAS A BIG T
ROUGH AT THE WELL, KEPT FULL OF WATER DAY AND NIGHT, IN CASE OF FIRE AND TO

WATER THE STOCK.  US HAD PEG BEDS, WHEAT STRAW MATTRESSES AND RAG PILLOWS.  COTT
ON WAS TOO VALUABLE.
     MASTER DID NOT ALLOW THE CHILDREN TO BE WORKED.  HE FED SLAVES ON POTATOES,
 RICE, CORN PONE, HOMINY, FRIED MEAT, MOLASSES, SHORTS, TURNP\,  OLLRD\, jND2S
TRING BEANS.  US HAD PUMPKIN PIE ON SUNDAY.  NO BUTTER, NO SWEET MILK BUT US GOT
 kLABBER AND BUTTnR-MrLK.
     OH, THEN, I ABOUT TO FORGET.  THERE WAS A BIG HALL WITH2 PrNn  GWHEELS IN
IT,  WHERE THREAD WAS SPUN.  THAT THREAD WAS AHULED TO WINNSBORO AND BROUGHT TO
THE CLIFTON PLACE IN WINNSBORO, TO THE WEAVING HOUSE.  THAT HOUSE SAT ABOUT WHER
E THE WINNSBORO MILL IS NOW.  MAMMY WAS HEAD OF THE WEAVING HOUSE FORCE AND SEE
TO THE CLOTH.  THERE WAS A DYE ROOM DOWN THERE TOO.  THEY USED RED EARTH SOMETIM
ES AND SOMETIMES WALNUT STAIN.  MY MAMMY LEARNED ALL THIS FROM A WHITE LADY, MIS
S SPURRIER, THAT MASTER DAVID PUT IN CHARGE THERE AT THE FIRST.  HOW LONG DID SH
E STAY&  I DO NOT REMEMBER THAT.  US DID NOT WANT FOR CLOTHES SUMMER OR WINTER.
 WE HAD WOODEN BOTTON SHOES,  TWO PAIR IN A YEAR.
     MISTER SAM JOHNSON WAS THE OVERSEER.  THERE WAS ABOUT2SEVnN HuNmRED2slAe S
IN THE GAILLARD QUARTER AND TWENTY IN TOWN, COUNTING NO CHILDREN.  THE YOUNG
WHITE MARSTERS BROKE THE LAW WHEN THEY TAUGHT DADDY TO READ AND WRITE.  MARSE DI
CK SAID  TO TELL WITH THE LAW,  I HAVE GOT TO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT CAN READ AND WR
ITE AMONG THE SERVANTS.  MY DADDY WAS HIS VALET.  HE PUT THE BOYS TO BED, PUT ON
 THEIR SHOES AND BRUSHED THEM OFF, AND ALL THAT KIND OF ATTENTION.
     THE CHURCH WAS CALLED SPRINGVALE.  AFTER FREEDOM, BY A vOTE, THE-Mn BnSJO
INED UP, OUT OF RESPECT TO THE FAMILY, WITH THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPALIAN C
HURCH, SO AS TO HAVE AS MUCH OF THE FORM, WITHOUT THE SUBSTANCE OF THEM CHANTS,
OF THE MASTERS CHURCH.
     NO SIR, US HAD NO MULATTOES ON THE PLACE.  EVERYBODY DECENT AND HAPPY.  THE
Y GAVE US TWO DAYS DURING CHRISTMAS FOR CELEBRATING AND DANCING.
     I MARRIED SYLVIN FIELD,  A GAL ON THE GENERAL BRATTON CANAAN PLACE.  US
HAVE THREE CHILDREN.  NORA HEATH,  WHO I AM NOW LIVING WITH, AT WHITE OAK, BESSI
E LEW, IN TENNESSEE, AND SUSANNAH, WHO IS DEAD.
     WHAT DO I THINK OF ABE LINCOLN?  THAT WAS A MIGHTY-MjN-OF THELORD.  WHAT I
 THINK OF JEFF DAVIS?  HE WAS ALL RIGHT, ACCORDING TO HIS EDUCATION JUST LIKE-MY
 WHITE FOLKS.  WHAT DO I THINK OF MISTER ROOSEVELT&  OH,-MjN$  THAT ISOUR PAPA.
     GO OFF]  I HAVE BLABBED ENOUGH.  ARE YOU OBLIGED TO HEAR ABOUT THAT FUNERAL
&  WILL I PESTER YOU FOR ANOTHER CIGARETTE&  NO SIR$  I AINT GOING TO SMOKE IT L
IKE YOU SMOKE IT.  SUPPOSING US WAS SITTING HERE SMOKING THEM THE SAME&  A
GAILLARD COMES UP THEM STEPS AND SEES IT.  HE SAY  SHAME ON THAT WHITE MAN, TURN
 HIS BACK AND WALK BACK DOWN.  A WOODWARD COMES UP THnM STn S&jND2bE S  b. &HE2S
AY YOU DAMN NIGGER.  WHAT IS ALL THIS?  TAKE ME BY THE COLLAR, BOOT ME DOWN THEM
 STEPS, AND COME BACK AND HAVE IT OUT WITH YOU.  THAT IS AkOUT THE DIFFnrnnCEOF
 THE UP AND LOW COUNTRY BUCKRA.
     NOW ABOUT UNCLE WASHS FUNERAL.  UNCLE WASH WAS THE BLACKSMITH rN THE oORKS
OF THE ROAD ACROSS THE RAILROAD FROM CONCORD CHURCH.  HE WAS A POWERFUL MAN$  HE
 USED THE HAMMER AND TONGS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE MILES AND MILES ROUND.  HE-JOrNED
 THE SPRINGVALE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPALINA CHURCH, BUT FELL FROM GRACE.  HE
 lOVETED A qOGOF MARSE WALT BRICE AND WAS SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY FOR TWO YEAR
S, ABOUT THAT HOG.  HE CONTRACTED CONSUMPTION DOWN THERE AND CAME HOME.  HIS CHE
ST WAS ALL SUNK IN AND HIS RIBS WERE FULL OF RHEUMATISM.  HE SOON WENT TO BED
AND DIED.  HE WAS BURIED ON TOP OF THE HILL, IN THE PINES JUST NORTH OF WOODWARD
.  UNCLE POMPEY PREACHED THE FUNERAL.  WHITE FOLKS WERE THERE.  MARSE WILLIAM WA
S THERE, AND HIS NEPHEW, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ARIZONA.  UNCLE POMPEY TOOK
HIS TEXT ABOUT PAUL AND SILAS LAYING IN JAIL AND THAT IT WAS NOT NATURALLY AGAIN
ST A CHURCH MEMBER TO GO TO JAIL.  HE DWELT ON THE LIFE OF LABOR AND BRAVERY, IN
 TACKLING KICKING HORSES AND MULES.  HOW HE SHARPENED THE DuLL-PLOW-POrN S jnDM
AKE THE CORN AND COTTON GROW, TO FEED AND CLOTH THE HUNGRY AND NAKED.  HE LOOKED
 UP THROUGH THE PINE TREE TOPS AND SAID I SEE JACOBS LADDER.  BROTHER WASH IS
CLIMBING THAT LADDER.  HE IS HALF WAY UP.  AH$  BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PRAY, WHIL
E I PREACH THAT HE ENTER IN THEM PEARLY GATES.  I SEE THEM GATES OPEN.  BROTHER
WASH DONE REACH THE TOPMOST RUNG IN THAT LADDER.  LET US SING WITH A SHOUT,  THA
T BLESSED HYMN, THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD.  WITH THE FIRST VERSE THE
 WOMEN GOT TO HOLLERING AND WITH THE SECOND, UNCLE POMPEY SAID  THE DYING THIEF
I SEE HIM THERE TO WELCOME UNCLE WASH IN PARADISE.  THANK GOD$  BROTHER WASH DON
E WASHED AS WHITE AS SNOW AND LANDED SAFE FOREVER MORE.
     I BELONG TO THE METHODIST CHURCH AND I BELIEVE IT IS THE RIGHT THING.  MAN
 OUGHT TO DO AS GOD ARRANGED IT CAUSE HE PLANNED IT.  WE-KNOW RIGHT6OM6O !.
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