children.

Rita ~t3 a great hand to go seining With a certain ei1q~xe of‘ white boys, ~io always gave hia a generœ~a or bettez~ than eqaal share of the fish caught.

it Chr1st1I~ß, every slave on the Body plantation received a present. The Negro children received candy, raisins az~

“ni~ger-~toes“, balls, rbies, eta.

As :tor food, the slaves had, ~ith the exception cf “fancy tri~1n8“, about the same food that the whites ate. No darky In Harris Ccs.uity that he ever heard of ever went hungry or suffered for clothes until after freed~o~i.

Every Saturday was a wash day. The c1ot~tea and bed linen of all Whites and Blacks went into ~ah every Saturday. And “lUggers“, whether they liked lt or not, had to “scrub“ theeselves every Saturday Eight.

The usual laundry and tOEllet soap was a hcsi-~ade lye product, SOUL. of lt a soft-solid, and soue as liquid as water. The latter was stored in Jugs and dSIIIJOhnB. Zither would “fetch the dirt ‚ or take the hi de Off“ ; in short ‚ ~ten applied “with rag and we, something had to come“ .

Many of the Body slaves had wives and husbands living on other plantations end beloi~ging to ather planters. As a courtesy to

the principals of wch tri~onla1 alliances, their ~ers