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for it looked lak all de white folks tried to jine up wid ‘ein. How dey did beat up us pore Niggers~ Us had to git a pass for dis and a pass for dat, and dere jus‘ warn‘t nothin‘ us could do widout dein patterollers a-beatin‘ us up. Dey beat you i~dd a cowhide lash what eut a gash in your back evvy time it struck you. Yessum, white folks and Niggers wasall time quar‘ellin‘ and fightin‘.

	“When slaves got in from de fields dey et deir someDin t‘eat and went to bed. Dey didn‘t have to wuk on Saddays atter dinnertime. When our old Marster turned us loose, he turned us Imose; and when he wuked us, us sho‘ was wuked. De young folks had deir big times on ~adday nights. Dey danced and frolicked ‘round sort of lak dey does now. ~vvybody went to de nieetin‘ house on Sunday, and dere‘s whar Niggers had a good time a-courtin‘.

	“Christmas was de tthe when old Marster let us do
pretty much as us pleased. Us had all kinds of good things t‘eat, and atter us drunk a lot of liquor it warn‘t long ‘fore dere was a Nigger fight goin‘ on. Yessurn, us had cornshuckin‘s, cotton pickin‘s, quiltin‘s, log rollin‘s, and eli sich as dat. ~1d plenty t‘eat and good liquor to drink on hand, Ni~gers would shuck corn or pick cotton all night. it was de big eats and lots of liquor dat made slaves lak dem things.

	“Little slave boys played wid sun-~baked marbles, made of mud, and old rag balls, what was she‘ a heap diffunt from what chilluns thinks dey has got to have dese days ‘fore dey kin
have a good time.