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	“Mainiay‘s job was to make all de cloth. Dat was what she done all de tifle; jus‘woveeloth. Some of de others ~ar~ de bats and spun thread, but Mammy, she jus‘ wove on so reg‘lar d~t she made enough cloth for clothes for all dem slaves on de plantation and, it‘s a fact, us did have plenty of clothes. Al]. de nigger babies. wore dresses made jus‘ alak for boys and gals. I was sho‘ly mighty glad when dey ‘lowed me to git rid of dem dresses and wear shirts. I was ‘bout 5 years old den, but dat boys‘ shirt made me feel powerful mannish. Slave gals ware homespun, cotton dresses, and dey had plenty of dem dresses, so as dey could keep nice and clean all de time. D~ t~.i). de socks and stockin‘s for winter. Dem gals wore sh&wls, and dere poke~~or~xiets
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had ruffles ‘round ‘em. All de shoes was home-rnade too. Marster I~ept one man on de plantation what didn‘t do nothin‘ but make shoes.
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Lordy, Missy! What would gals say now if dey had to wear dem kind of clothes? Dey would raise de roof plumb offen de house. But jus‘ let me tell you, a purty young gal dressed in dem sort of cl othes would look mighty sweet to me right now.

	“Us never could eat all de meat in Marster‘s big old smokehouse.‘ Sometimes he tuk hams to de store and traded ‘em for sugar and coffee. Plenty of ‘baccowas raised on dat planta~ tjo~ for all de white folks and de growed-up Niggers. Slave chillun warn‘t sposen to have none, so us had to swipe what ‘bacco us got.
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if ourMam~1es found out ‘bout us gittin‘ ‘bacco, dey ~

‘tu de skin.was most off our backs, but sometimes us got away wid