Slave Interview	Page 2 ~	59
James Johnson .
Monticello, Florida	‚


an open fireplace and seasoned with salt obtainedby evaporating sea water.

	Water for ai]. purposes wae drawn from a well. In. order to get soap to wash with, the cook would save all the grease left from the cooking. Lye was obtained by mixing o~k ashes with water and. allowing them to deoay~ Tubs were made from large barrels.

	~hen ehe was about 8~VØfl or eight, Patience assisted other children about her age and older in picking out cotton seeds from the picked cotton. After the ~btton was weighed on iniproved ecales, it WS~8 bound in bags made of hemp.

	Spinning and weaving were taught Patience when she wa~ about ten. Although the cloth and thread were dyed various Odors7 she knows only how blue was obtained by allowing the indigo plant to rot in water and straining the result.

	Patience‘s father was not only a capable field worker but aiBo a finished shoemaker. After tanning and curing his hides by placing them in water with oak bark for several days and~ then e~ POSing them to the sun to dry, be would cut out the uppers and. the Scies after measuring the foot to be shod. There would be an inside ~mie ~ well as an outside sole tacked together by means of~ email ~ack~ n~aj,e of maple wood, Sewing was done on the shoes by means of ~i~x thread.

	Patience remembers saving the feather~ from all the w~ t~ n~ake feather beds, She doeen‘trernember when women stopped