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In the big house ‚ doz~ ‚ t makè a big pocket under your dreaa and put a sack of coffee and a sack of sugar and other things you want in it,‘.

	“They took Mm out ‚ and hanged him tor corrupting the morals of the slaves.


Conditions itter the War

	“Immediately after the War, there was a great scarcity of tood. Neither Negroes nor white folk had anything to eat. The few white people who did have something wouldn‘t let it be known. My grandmother who was sixty$ive years old and one of the old and respected inhabitanta of that time went out to find something for us to eat. A white woman named Mrs. Burton gave her a sack of meal and told her not to tell anybody where she got lt.

	“My grandmother brought the meal home and cooked lt in a large skillet in a big cake. Villen it got done ‚ she cut it into slices in the way you would cut up a pie and divided it among us • That all ~ we had to eat,


Rouse

	“The white people in those days built their houses back from the front. In South Carolina, there were lots of farms that had four to twelve thousand acres. Prom what mother told ~‚ Master Bill‘s place set back from the road. Then there was a great square place they called the yard. A fence divided the house and the yard adjoining it from that part of the grounds which held the barn. The yard In front and back of th• house held a grove.