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	5.	?lhat clothing cUd you wear in hot weather? Cold weather? On Sundays? Any shoes? Describe your‘ wedding clothes.

	6.	Tell a1~out your master, mistress, their chji~ren, the house they liveQ. in, the overseer or driver, poor white neighbors.

	7.	How many acres in the plantation? How many slaves on it? How and at ~rhat time CUd. theoverseer wake up the slaves? Did they work hard. and~ late at night? How and. for what causes were the slaves punishod.? Tell what you saw. Tell some of the storiE~s you heard.

	8.	Was there a jail for slaves? Did you ever see ar~y slaves sold or auctioned off? How did. groupe of slaves tra7el? Did you ever see slaves in chains?

	9.	Did the \1hit‘~ folks help you to learn to read and. ‘rîrite?

	10.	DId th~ slaves have a church on your plantation? Did.they read. the Bible? Who wr~s your f.avorit~ preacher? Your favorite spirituals? Tc11 about the baDtizing; baptizing songs. Funerals and. funoral songs.

	11.	DId the slaves ev€~r run away to the North? Thy? ~TIiat did you hear about patrollers? Hoyt did slaves carry news from one plan— tation to another? Did you hear of trou~1e betvreon the blacks ~nd whites?

	12.	VThat did. thf~ s1~LVes do vThen they went to their quarters after the day!s work rias done on the DL~ntation? Did. thcy ;iork cn S~.turdav afternoons? ~That did they do Saturday nights? Sundays? Christmas ir~orning? New Yc~rts DayT Any other holidays? Cornshucking? Cotton Picking? D~txices? When some of the white rri~ster‘s family married or died? À wodding or death amonr~ the slaves?

	13.	What games did you Dlay as a child.? Can you give ~he v!Ord.5 or si“ig ~Jny of the plaj song~3 or ring gamer Of the children? Riddles? Charms? Stories about “Raw Head and Bloody Boncs“ or other “hante“ of ghosts? Stories about anim‘üs? V~hrtt do you think of voodoo? Can you give the worc~s or sing ~tny lu11abi~s? Wor1~ songs? Plantation hollers? Can you tell a funny story you have hc~rd or something funny that h.aDp~ned to you? Toll about tbe gho~t3 you have seen.

	14.	Vi‘hen slnves became sick who looked after thorn? ‚ What mcdi— cmos did the doctors give theni? What med.icine (herbs, leaves, or roots) did the s1~.ves usc for sickness? What charms did they wear and to k~3ep off VThat liseases?