A
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	~	square around the houee
	:~	the Negro quartera were
	I	encloeed so that the lit—
	~	could not get out
			      LtS were at work.
			  assembled on
			porch when the
		‘%.~‚	called them In the
	~	t:)	  ~. The b088 gave
	~	  from the porch,
	T‘ ~d	 was an open space
	( L~	   the quarters and
	~s	court (where the lit-.
	~‚	slave a played) ~ There
	I      	a gate between the
		 and the big house.

	“On the rear of the house, there was a porch from ~hicb the boss gave orders usually about Cour o‘clock in the morning and at which they would disbafld in the evening between nine and ten-—no certain time but more or less not earlier than nine and not often later than ten. Back ot the house and. beyond lt was a fence extending clear across the yard. In one corner of this fence was a gate leading into the court. Leading out of the court was an opening surrounded by a semi-circular fence which en— closed the Negro quarters,

	“The cabins were usually built on the ground-—no floors. The roofs were covered with clapboards.

	“~en I was a boy‘ we used to sing, ‘Bather be a nigger than a poor white rrian.‘ ßven in slavery they used to sing that. It was the poor white man who was freed by the War, not the Negroes,


:~FUI‘fl1 ture

“There wasn‘t any furniture. Beds were built with one post out and

the other three sides fastened to the sides of the house.	~ ~ ~ Y.~..