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	Martin Richardson		~	2	‚	2
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other small gifts; thess bo either used~ for his small faini1~ or bartered with the other slaves. Sorzetimes he sold them to the slaves for money; cash was not altogether imbtoun among the slaves on the ~iith place.

1Luatin gives an interestixi~ iescniption of his ~ster, Thon~as

~nith. He sa~rs that ‘sumptin~a he was real rich and~ ai]. of as had. a ~ood time. The wi~k wasntt irnrd then, caue if we bad big crops he irould borrow

~	8o3~ he‘p from the otber ~.ite folks. He v.sed to give us meat every day, and. plönty of other things. One tii~ he bought all of u.s shoes, and on Sunday niait woitid let v~ g~ to wherever the preacher was holdin~ ~eting.

~	He i~sed~ to givs ~ papa money eumptimos, too.

~Bu~t they ~sed1 to whisper that he would gamble a lot. Te useL to

~	8ee a whole lot of men cone up to the house e~aptiaies and stay up most of

the ni~it. Swuptimos they would~ stay three or f~.r days. Az4 once in a

while after one of these big doings Mistmh ~rtith would look worried, and.

‚e wouldn~t get no meat and~ vary little of ariythiz~g else for a long ti~.

Ke would. be crabby and beat us for auy little thing. He ised to tell ~
	papa that he wo~ildn~t have a 6— cent until he ~e sone	s~

	A few years before he left to enter the waX‘ the slave o~er ca~ into posseBsion of a store near his plantation This. itors was in Greensboro. Zither because the business ~eid or because of another of hie OConomic ~bad Spellsl ~ ownership of hla plantation passed to a ~n nan~sd Kimball and. ~ost of the slaves, with the SXøptiofl of Bill AUstil ~fld 01* or two wom.n •ithi‘ transferred with the plantation or so1~. Bill ~$$ kSPt to dO srranda and general work aro~nL tI~ eton.

	Bill learned. c~ about the opOration of the store, iith t~ r.~lt that When Mr. ~iith left with the Ssutbern 4rs~ he loft hie wife a~ BiU to conti~ Lt~ O~pSration, 17 th~1 ti ~T ~d ~° ~ stories