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spartanbur~ Dlat.4		Elmer Turna~e 204
May 24, 193?

STORIES PROM EX.SLàVES	‚

	“I was born near old Bush River Baptist Church, in Newberry County, S.C. I was the alave of John Satterwhite. My mother lived with them. I was a small girl when the war was on. My brother went to war with Marse Satterwhite. When de Ku Klux arid. paddrollers traveled around in that section, they made Mr. Satterwhite hold the ni~ers when they was whipped, but he raost~a1l the time let them loose, exclaimiri~, ‘they got loose‘ ~ he did not want many of them vvhipped.

	~ mother had a kitchen way off from the house, wid a wide flreplace where she cooked victuals. There was holes in back of de chimney with iron rods sticking out of them to hold de pane, pots, kettles or boilers.

	~People there did riot believe much in ghosts. They were not much superstitious, but one time some OS the negroes thought they heard the benches in‘Bush River Baptist Church turn ovér when nos. body was in the church. ‚

	“Negroes most always shouted at their religious raeetin~s. Before de negroes had their own church meetings, the s1ave~ went to the white folks‘ Bueb River Bßptiat church and set up in the gallery. I moved to Newberry when I was young, after I got married.“

Source:	Maria Cleiant, Newberry, 8.0. (80 years old). Interviewez‘ : G.L. ‚»SurnLLier, Neiberry, S. C. (5/17/37)