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	Occasionally on other piantations(~$1avea were allowed to eairn money by selling vegetables, chicken~.t4~tewe~,.P~..Qn the ~‘iff1n Plantation they could only esčl hc,ne made *gingercak.a* f~ which a fiIs~Öentj piece o1~ paper money was received in return. There wre three pieces of paper money used in those daya~the t1ve~cent~, ten..centfi, end. f iftsem.~cent,~ piece‘~

	Although the -eelwd did not hays separate churches ‚ they were expected to attend the white churehes and occuw the benches placed in the back ‚ purposely for them. 4fter the coachmen drove the white family to church he unhitched the horses trcmt the carriage and carried them to the pasture where they r~eined until the servicee were over.

	Marriages were very easily performed on the ~‘1ftin Plantation:

4L~tb~.*1 ~ ~tter securing ths consent of both owners the rest of the ceremony conal sted only in having the couple jiup the broon. In the event ‚ the br1~de and groan 1i~ed on separate plantations the gr~ wsa given a pass to ~ieit her on week ende ‚ beginning Saturday afternoon end ending Sundayfrening.

“Our master was too mean to let us have frolice~ “remarked ~‚. GrlffIn

~Ie never knew anything, but ~ of course when we got sick we were given the best medical care possible. People didn‘t die, they always got w.U~ ~ Hone remedie~‘fmade fron various roots ~re used for minor illnesses.

	“When the Civil War broke out our master 1o?~ iiia horses with

his most valuable possessions and refugeed forty miles fron his hone, remerked Mr. ~r1ffin. “On one occasion the Yanks case to our plantation end stole three of our best horses. I never saw a battis fought but often watched the conf.derate,p~ldiers drifl1n~. We continued to work lone after freed~ was dsclare~, not knowing that we ~r free. On. day our aaste,~ son-in-law called us together and told us ~ wei~ free. Most of us didn‘t know what