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“When I was born they h~d a white mid-wits, Misa Martin. My mietreas

was in the cabin ehen I was born. I ~‘as born toot to~emost and had a veil.

031 fl3~ face and down on my body a piece. They call it ~ a ~ cul.‘ 8ometiaee

I see :roims au~ they vaniah~ I can see sori~ out et one eye now. But I‘ve

always seen things ehen my sight was good. It is like when you are dreaming

at nicht ~xtt I see them at times that plain in day.
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“1 dOn‘ t know how old I am but I was a. good size girl when man~ipation

~	come on. Miss Cornelia had my age in her Bible. They done took me frcrn the cabin and I was staying at the house • I slept on a trundle bed under Miss Cornai la‘ a bed. Her bed was a teaater.-—way high up, had a

~	big stool to step on to go up in there and she had it curtained off. I had a €ood cotton bed and I slept good up under them. ~ Her be was corded with

~	sea grass rope. it didn‘t have no slats like beds do now.

	“Colored ~o1ks slept on cotton beds and white tolka-~a~e o~ em at least--picked geese and made feather beds and down. pillows. They carded and washed sheep ‚ s wool and put l.a their q~uilts . $on~a of them, they‘ d ~ be light and warm. Colored ~0)j~8t bed had one leg. Then lt was holes hewed

	in the wall on the other three sides and wooden slats across it. Now that wasn‘t no bad bed. Some or them was big enough ~or three to sleep on good.

	When the children was ~nall tour could sleep easy cross ways, and they

slept that way.

	“They had shelves and tables and chairs. They made cheats and put things ùi there ~ and set on top Of it too. White tolks had fine chests to keep their bed clothes in. Some of them was made oe oak1, and pine, and Cypress. They would cook walnut hulls and bark and paint them dark with the tea.