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Aunt Lucy, she was de cook, and she told nie dat siave$ was skeered
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of den‘ ‘nigger-~ki1Ier‘ ‘taters and never bothered ‘e~ much den lak dey does de yarn patches dese days. I used to think I seed ha‘nta at night ‚ but it allus turned ut to be somebody dat ~ was t ryln‘ to skeer me. .
~	“‘Bout de most fun slaves had was at dem corn~

shuckin‘s. De general wouïd git high on top of de corn pile and whoop and holler down leadin‘ dat oornshuokin‘ song ‘til ail de corn was done shucked. Den corne de bi~ eats, de likker, and de dancin‘. Uotton pickin‘s was big fun too, and when dey ~ot through pickin‘ de cotton dey et and drunk and danced ‘tu dey couldn‘t dance no more.

	‘tMiss, white folks jus‘ had to be good to sick sieves, ‘cause slaves was property.. For Old 1~arster to lose a slave, was losin‘ money. ~ere warn‘t so many doctors dem days and home~ r~de medicines was ail de go. Oil and turpentine, camphor, assfiddy (~safetida), cheri~ bark, sweetgum bark; all dem things.was used to ru~ke teas for grown folks to take for deir ailments. ~ed oak bark tea was give to chillun for stomach mis‘ries.

	“All I can ricollect ‘bout de comin‘~ of freedom ~ s Old ~crster tellin‘ us dat u~ was free as jack-rabbits and dat f~rom den on Niggers would have to git deir own somepin t‘eat. It w~rn‘t long atter dat when dem yankees, *id pretty blue clothes on C~ne through our place and dey stole most evvything our Marster had.