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“geeing and hawing“ coening from the fields ‚ the sq,uealing ot pige and the barking of dO~ßAftll sounds mingling together.

	3very one had a certain amount Of work to cc~iip1ete before the day ended ; and each person worked ~ in teverlsh haste to get lt done and avoid the whipping which they knew was in store for them, should they fall. During the day Mr. ~‘iffin‘a niother workedin the field, hosing and plowing. At night sh~ as well as other wcmen, had to spin tbread Into cloth until
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bed time. Each woman had. to ccinplete four cuts or 4~‘e punlsk~e~t the next morning. “If it began raining while we worked in the fields ‚ the overseer would tell everyone to put up their horses end to to shelling . . corn in the cribs,“ remarked Mr. Griffin.

	“Mike Griffin was the meanest man I ‘yr ever known ‚ he ccntinue~ “He would ait down with nothing else to do~ think of saie man, send for him and for no reason at all, give him a good beating. I~a kept a long cow~ hide, which was aimoat an inch thick and with this he would &lmost beat folks to death. First you had to remove your clothing so that whipping would not wear them out. One day he beat a w~an n~ed Hannah so badly that she died the same night. Before daybreak he had carried thebaby 7 off and buried it. We never knew the burial placef~‘ Overseers too, were very mean~ particularly those on the ~‘iffin plantation. They followed the example of the man who h1re~ them and as a result this. ~lantatipn as
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known far end wide for its~wue1ty, faer end -tsi~-o~‘. Manj slaves would &~ tI4~

have attempted to run away but for fear of the par~k o~ blood hounds kept for the purpose of tracking run away slaves.