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end ear~~ them out and whip $heia. I nsver heard ihOm say that they whippsd anybody for voting. if, they did1 it vaau‘t done In our nelghboxhoo,d.


Worahip

	*Ux~o1o Anderson aai4 that old man Flelta didn‘t allow them to sing and

pray and hold meetin~a, and they had to alip oft and slip aside and hide around to pray. They knsw what to do. People used to atick their heada under waahpota to sing and pray. Scme ot thsm went out into the brueh arbora where they could pray and ahout without being disturbsd.

	‘Grandfather Zoe and Grandfather ~n,tth both said that they had aeen alavea have that trouble. Ot course, it never happened on the plantations where they were brought up. Uncle Anderson said that th.y would aometi~s go off and gst under ths washpot and sing and pray the best they could.

When they prayed under the pot, they would make a little hole and est ths
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pot over it. Then they would stick their heads under the pot and say and

sing what they wantsd.


Slave Salsa

	wGrandrather Yoe and Grandfather ~ith used to say that ehen a child was born i:LcI it was a child that was tine blooded they would put it on th. block and sell it away from iti parents while it was little. Both of‘ ay grandtathers imrs sold away frcm their parents when they were email kids.

They never knew who their parents were.

	“When my oldest auntie was born, my mother said she was sold about two years ~ before freedom. Aunt Enina was only two years old then when she was sold. Mother never ~t her until ehe was married and had a family. They would sell the children slaves of that eœ‘t at auction, and l•t them go to the highest biddsr.