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The first work that Charlie ~&a remember4 dt~i!t~ was “tot Ing C
cawn“ for his mother “to drap“, and sweeping the yards up et


the “big house“. lie also recalls that many tliœs).when he was lii the yard at the “big house“, “é~e LIiss“ would call hii~ in axid give him a buttered biscuit.

The ~aster arid I~istress always n&ied the Negro babies and usually gave theni Bible names.

When the Negroes were sick, ~le Master“ and“~Le Miss“ did the doctorii~g, sci~ietixr~s giving them salts or oil, and it ~ ~h~refused te-~-4&ke it1they used the raw hide 9whup.“

~hen a xae~ber of a Negro family died) the ~ ster permitted all the Negroes to stop work and go to the fur~ral. The slave was buried in the slave grave yard. 3ometii~s a

white minister read the Bible service, but usually a Negro
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preacher ~

The Negroes on this plantation had to work tro~zn sun up till sun down, except Satur~~ and Sunday; those were free.

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The master blew on a big coach shell every ~aorniri~ at(~par)

o‘clock, and when the first long blast was heard the lights “‘gin to twinkle in ever~~Nigger‘ cabin.“ Charlie)cht~ckl1ng) recalled that “oie ~1aster“ blowed that shell so lt could~a— been heard for ~i~ve)rniles.“ WietheZii~1±-We~S-~41eeITt, some of tjie“Niggers“ went to teed the rriules and. horses, soi~ae to milk the cows, some to eook the breakfast In the big house,