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	t, When Mammy was converted she ~ the whit4eolks c~~urch and. was baptized by a white preaehei~‘ ‘~suse in dem days slaves all went to de sanie churches wid de~ marster‘s rambJ.ies. Dere vv~rn‘t no separate churches ~or Negroe~ and. white people den.
	t? ~ wa.rntt no b1g~er dan dis here little Salue Mae what

stays wid nie when de War ended and dey free~, d~ slaves. A 1on~ ti~a~ atter it was all over, Mammy told. me ~bout dat day. She said ~iie was in de kitchen up at de big house a-~ookin‘ and nie and my si~D~rs was out in de yard in de sandbed. a~1ayin‘ wid de little :‘iite ciilllUfl when dein yankee sojers come. Old Miss, she said to ~anna~r: ‘i~~i11y, look yonder what‘s a~eoii~~‘, I aintt gwine to ~I::~ve notliln‘ 3~eft, not even a nickels worth~ ‘cause d~ere comes C4~3:i y~nkees.t Dey rid on in de yard, dem s~ers what wore dem ~ jackets, and dey jus‘ swarmed all over ~ur place. Dey even

-~n~ in our smokehouse and evvywliar and toot whatever dey wanted.

~ s.~id slaves was all freed from bondage ~d told us to jus‘ ~ anythin~g and evvytuiing us wanted rroxn ~ bi~ house and all ‘l~:und de plantation whar us lived. Dem th~vth‘ sojers even ~i~::ei up one of de babies and started off ~‘1~d iSt, and den Old

-~i3~ did scream and. cry tor sho‘. Atter de~ h~d done left, Old.

-._iss called all o1~ us together and said she ~ith~‘t want none of us to 1e~ve her and so us stayed widher a whoJM ~ atter freedom
done come.