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8pm and to help Mrs ~ Moore ‚ who dl d all of the weaving. They used to do their own persona3. works at night also. ~ennie Kenth‘lcks says,“ she remembers hew her mother and the older girls would go to the spring at night where they washed their clothes and then left them todry on the surround1n~ bushes.

:~	As a little girl ~ennič Kendricks spent all of her time in the master‘s house where she played with the young white children. Sa~e~ time s ‚ she and Mrs • Moore ‚ s youngest child ‚ a little boy, would fight because it appeared to one that the other was receiving more attention. from

Mrs. 1~ďoore than the other. As she crew older she was kept in the house . as a playmate to the Moore children so she never had to work in the field


a single day.

~	She stated that they all jre good clothing. and that all of I t was made on the ~lantati on with one ezeepti on • The ‘serve~ts spun the thread and Mxs. Moore and her daughters did all of the weaving as well as the making of the dresses that were worn on this particular plantation. j “The ‚%ay they made this cloth“, She continued“, was to wind a certain a amount of thread known as a “cut“ onto a reel. Vihen a certain number of cuts were reached they were placed on the loom. This cloth was colored with a dye made from the bark of trees or with a dye that was made from the mdi ~o berry cultivated ~ on the plantation. The drewses that the women were on working days were made of striped or checked materials while these worn on 3unday were usually white.~ .

	She does not know what the men were on work days as she never came in contact with them. Stockings for all were knitted on the place. The shoes, which were the one exception mentioned above, were made by one Bill Tacobs, an elderly white man who made the shoes for all the plantations