SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Interviewer's Ctararaent
Peggy Sloan 1 s memory - is going* She is not certain of the number of
children her mother had although she knows there were more than seven because
she was the seventh*
She remembers nothing about her age, but she knows definitely that all
of her mother's children were born before the War—that is before the end of
the War# Since the War ended seventy-three years ago and she was the
seventh child with possibly seven behind her, I feel that she could not be
younger than eighty* She remembers definitely running at the approach of
men she calls pateroles during "slavery time."
Her mind may be fading, but it is a long way from gone. She questioned
rae closely about my reason for getting statements from her* She had to be
definitely satisfied before the story could be gotten*
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