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“Us jus‘ wore coninion clothes. Winter tiflte dey give us dresses mad e out of thi o k h omespun ei 0th • De sk I rt s was gathe red on to tight fittin‘ waisties. Us wore brass toed brogan shoes in winter, but in s~iiimer Niggers went bar‘foots. Us jus‘ wore what us could ketch in summer. By dat time our winter dresses had done wore thin and us used. ‘em right on thro~igh de hot weather.

“Marse Daniel Miller, he was some kinder good to Manirny, and Miss Susan was good. to us too. Now Honey, somehow I jus‘ cain‘t ‘meinber deir chilluns naines no more. And I played in de sand piles all day long wid ‘em too.

“Oh‘-h-h~ Dat was a great big old plantation, and. when all dein Niggers got out in de fields wid horses and wagons, it looked lak a picnic ground; only d~n Niggers was in dat field to wuk and~ dey sho‘ did have to wuk.

“Marster had a carriage driver to drive him and 01e Miss ‘round and to take de chullun to school. De overseer, he got de Niggers up ‘fore day and dey had done et deir breakfast, ‘tended to de stock, and was in de field by sunup and he wuked ‘ein ‘tu sundown. De mens didn‘t do no wuk atter dey got through tendin‘ to de stock at night ‚ but Mammy and lots of de other ~‘om.~ns sot up and spun and wove ‘til ‘leven or twelve o‘clock lots of nights.

“My pappy was a man what b‘lieved in havin‘ his fun and ce would run off to see de gals widout no pass. Once when he slipped off