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a little. If us seed any of~ de old. f~o1ks was watehin‘ us, us slipped de ‘bacco from one to another of us whilst dey s‘arched us ‚ ari~d it went mighty bad on us if dey found it.

	“Slaves went to de w1ij~e~folks‘ church and ll8tened to de ~ Dere warn‘t no colored preacher ‘lowed to preach in dein churches den. Dey preaeheà. to de white folks fust and den dey let de colored folks come inside and hear some preachin‘ atter dey was through wid de white folks. But on de big ‘vival ineetin‘ days dey ‘lowed de Niggers to come in and set in de gallery end listen at de same time dey preached to de white folks. When de sermon was over dey had a big dinner spread out on de grounds and dey hed jus‘ evvything good t‘eat lakchickeus, barbecued hogs and lambs, pies ‚ and lots of watermelons . Us kept • dewatermelons in de crick ‘ti_i dey was ready to cut ‘em. A white gentleman, what dey called Mr. Kilpatrick, done most of de preachin‘. lie was from de White Plains neighborhood. 11e sho‘ did try mighty hard to git evvybody to ‘bey de I~ood Lord and keep his commandments.

	“Mr. Kilpatrick preached~ all de funerals too. It ‘pears lak a heapmore folks is a~dyin‘ out dese days dan died den, and folks was aheap better den. to folks in trouble. Dey would go inilesand miles de nwhen dey didn‘t h~ve~oguto!b .. Uez, to help ftlks what was in trouble. j~w, dey won‘tgo next door when dere‘s death in de house. Den, when anybody died de tust thing dey done was to shroud ‘em and lay ‘em out on de coolin‘ board ‘tu Old ~:erster‘s cyarpenter could git de coffin made up. Dere warn‘t no