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	•Th.y~ would maks the alave8 work till twelvs o‘ clock on ainday, end then th•y would 1•t them go to church. The tiret ti~ I wa8 spri~ik1ed, a ihits preacher did it; I think hia n~ wa.. lillialna.

	~Th, preacher would preach to the white folka in the forenoon end to the aolored tolka in the evening. The white ~O1ke had them hired. One of them prachers waa named Hackett; another, WiUi&is; and another, Cowan. There was five of them but I juat remember them three. One iien used to hold the slaves 80 late that they had to go to the church dirty from th.iz‘ work. They would be sweaty end ~nelly. So the preacher ‚ t~iked him ‚ bout

it.	That was old man BIU Rose.

	“The niggera didn‘t go to the churoh building; the preacher ce~ end preached to them in their quarters. He‘d just say, ‘Serve your maatera~ Doii‘t steal your master‘s turkey. Don‘t steal your master‘s chickens.

Don‘ t steal your master‘ a hawge. Don‘ t atea]. your master‘ s meat. Do what.‘~ s~ever your master tells you to do.‘ 8sise old thing all the ti~,

	~	‘My father would have church in dwelling housse and they had to whisper. My mother was dead and I would go with hii~. Sciistimea tby would have church at his house. That‘ wou~Ld be when they would want a real metin‘ with e~~e roe]. preachin‘ • It would have to be dunn‘ th waek nights. You couldn‘t tell the difference between Baptists end Methodists then. They was all Christisna. I never saw them turn nobody dom at the cot~inion, but I have heard of it. I nver saw them turn no pots dom neither; ~it I have heard of that. Th.y uad to sing their songs in a whisper and pray in a whisper. That was a prayer..iseeting f~ house to houes onc• or twio....s once or twice a wsk.

	‘Old Thipps whipped ~ once. ifs aiiied to kill ~ ~it I got loose. Ha whipped ~ about a colored girl of hia‘n that he had by a colored wc~n•