Week ending Aug.6, 1937.		Mary A. Poole, 2 2
S-260 •		Identification No.O149~4366
S-200		Federal Writers‘ Project,Dlat.2.
  .	~ .	WPŔ Project 3609,.Mobile, Ala.

CHARLIE AkRONS ‚ EX~.CLAVE ‚ SAYS HE LOVED

YOUNG MARSTER JOHN.

(Written by Mary ~L Poole.)

had. a white overseer and a negro driver, who was the riieanest of ail. Mr. Jason Harris had about sixty slaves, and a large

plantation of a hundred acres, the n~n and ~n~n worked in the fields from six to six, except on Saturday, ~en they had half day holiday to clean up generally.

	The home of t1~ Harris family was a large two story house and the quarters were the regular log cabins with clay chimneys. They cooked in their cabins, but during the busy season in the tields ~heir dinners were sent out to them each slave having his own tin pail n~rked with his na~ • Water would be sent out in a barrel mounted on an ox cart.

	The old men and wc~nen looked after the children of the slaves ~iile their parents worked In the fields.

	When the writer asked Uncle Charlie, it his master or mistress ever taught hirn. to read or writes he aulled and said:

	~No, Mada~i, only to work“.

	.	When asked if they had. any special festivities at Christmas or any other holiday, he replied:

	“No, ~ had. no special jolifications“.

	Sat~urday nights they could sing and dance in the quarters end have prayer meetings, then on soi~ Sundays, they could2hitch up the mules to a big wagon and aU go to the v~iite folks church:

and again there would be eeinp meetings held and the slaves from
all the surrounding plantations would attend, going to saine in