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III	they would get catched, them that didn‘t have passes would ~et whipped. Them that had them, they were all right.


E~iausement s

	“They had. barbecues. That ‚ s where the barbecues started frora, I reckon, from the barbecues emong the slave8.

	“They would have corn shuckings. They would have a whole lot of corn to shuck, and they would give the corn shucking and the barbecue together. They would shuck as many as three or four hundred bushels of corn in a night. ~ometixnes, they would race one another. So you know that they must have been some shucking done.

	“I don‘t believe that I know of anything else. People were ignorant in those days and didn‘t have many ax~n~sements.


Occupations .


	“I used to be a reg~ilar miller until they laid the raen off. Now I don‘t have no kind of job at all.


Right after the War

	“Some of the slaves went right up North. We stayed In Clarksville and worked there for . a year o r two • In 1864 ‚ we went to Warren County ‚ Ui mois.

They put rae in school. My people werejust cox~irnon laborers. They bought themselves a nice little horns.

	“My mother‘s name was Anna Bailis and ray father‘s name was Charles Merrill. I don‘t remember the names of their masters.

	“I was raised by my uncle, ~iraon Blair. His master used to be a Bailis. My father, so I was told, went off and left my mother. She was weak and ailing, so my uncle took ins. He took rae away from her