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“~Lordy Iioney~ flow could dein Niggers run oft to de North when dem patterollers and deir hounds was waltin‘ to run ‘em down and beat ‘em up? Now some of de slaves on other places might have found

sme way to pass news ‘round but not on 01e Marater‘s place. You sho‘ had to have a pass ‘fore you could leave dat plantation and he warn‘t goin‘ to give you no pass jus‘ for fooliabment. I never heared tell ot no uprisin‘s twixt White folks and Niggers but dey fussed a-plenty. Now days when folks gits mad, dey jus‘ hauls. off
and kills one another.	..-~.


“Atter slaves got through deir wuk at night, dey was so tired dey jus‘ went right off to bed and to sleep. Dey didn‘t have to wuk on Sadday atter dinner, and dat night dey would pull candy, dance, and frolic ‘til late in de night. Dey had big times at cornshuckin‘s and log rollin‘s. My pappy, he was a go-gitter; he used to stand up on de corn and whoop and holler, and when he got a drink of whiskey in him he went hog wild. ‘~ere was alius big eatin‘s when de corn was all shucked.


“Christmas warn‘t much diffunt from other times. Us chillun had a heap of fun a-lookin‘ for Santa Claus. De old folks danced, quilted, and pulled candy dunn‘ de Christinastinie. Come New Year‘s Day, dey all had to go back to wuk.


“What for you wants to know what I played when I was a little gal? Dat was a powerful long time ago. Us played in de sand piles, jumped rope, played hide and seek and Old Mother Hubbard.“