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	“She had been sick for quite a bit, and the was just able to co~ to the door and d€liver that message • Three weeks after that time ‚ they brought her out 0fb the house feet toremost and took her to the oemetery. The news killed her dead. That‘s been seventy years ago, and they just now picking up on it! .


Slave Time Amusements

	“The old people say they used to have breakdowns in slave tint--break— down daices with fiddle and banjo imiaic• Far after slavery, they had them. The only other amusement worth speaking about was the churches. Far as the churches was coucerned, they had to steal out and go to th~. Old man Balm Whitlow can tell you all about the way they held church. They would slip oft in the woods and carry a ~ng of darkies down, and the next morning old master would whip them for it. Next Sunday they would do the same thing again and get another whipping. And it went on like that every week. When old man Whitlow caine out from slavery, he continued to preach. 3~t the darkies didn ‚ t have to steal out then. He ‚ s dead now, him and the old lady both.


Houses

	“The slaves lived in old log houses. Some 0fb them would be hewed and put up well. I have seen lots of them. Sometimes they would dob the cracks with mud and would have box pla.mks floors, one by eight or one by ten, rough lumber, not dressed. Set ‘em as close together as they could but then there would be cracks in them. I can carry you to sc~ old 1o~ houae~ down in Union County now 1f they haven‘t been torn down recently.