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Name of Interviewer ~nS. S. Taylor Subject -- Slaves: Dwellings, .Pood,Clothes, Story or Information


Phc ~hiflk~ looked like ~1uts. ~ou know what a glut 18? No? iNch a glut looks hike t~e pattern of a shoe. They lay the logs to~ gether~ and then chir~‘k up the crq~zks with wood blocks made up like the pattern ~ a ~3hoe. These were chinks, wooden things about a foot 1OflG~~ shaped like a weJge. They Here used for chinkth~. Af~ ter the logs viere laid together, chinks would be needed to stop up the holes between the logs. After the chinking was finished, clay ~va~ stuffed in to 8top up the cracks ami make the house warm. I‘ve
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s e cri a many a .~fle bu j 1 t.

	iNide planks were used for the floors. The doors were hung on wooden hinges. The doors were nev~er locked. They did n‘t have ar~ 1ock~ on them. You could bar them on the inside if you wanted to. They did‘~‘n‘t have no fear of burglars in them days. People wasTh‘t bad then as they ~8 now. ~Tney had ju8t one window and. one door in the house. The chimney was built up like a ladder and clay and Straw was stuffed in the framework.
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	I have seen such houses built right down here infScotts. ~ My motherwas a field hand. She lived in euch a house in Tenne~~

There wa3 n‘t no brick about the hou8e, not even in the chimney.

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Thjz information ~ivcn by Eliza Washin~tou (Negro)

Place of Re8iidenthe ~ 151? L Seventeenth Street, Little Rock, Ark. Occupation ~ Washing and Ironing ( When able ) Age ~ About 77