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danc1n~g all night loni~. About twelve o‘clock they had a bi~ supper, everybody bringing a box of all kinds ot good th1n~s to eats and putting it on a long table.

Oil Sunday)all the darkies had to go to church. Sometimes the Master had a house on his plantation for the preaching
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-pl~ee, and sometliries the slaves had to go ten or twelve, miles to preaching. When they went so farthe slaves could use ‘oie‘ L~aster‘s‘ niules and ~~ons.

Charlie recalls very well when the Yankees carne through. The first thing they did when they reached ‘oie 1~aster‘s‘ place was to break open. the ~nokehou~se and throw the best hams and shoulders out to the darkies, but as soon as the Yankees pa s sed) the white folks nade the “Niggers“ take “all dey had‘nt et up“ back to the smokehouse.“ \ Yes, Miss, we 1~d plenty of liquor. 01e Master always kept kegs of it in the cellar and big ‘Jirni~iy~johxi‘s‘ full in the house, and every Saturday nig~‘~ he‘d give us derides a dram, but nobody nevah seed. no drunk Nigger lak dey does now.“

Charlie‘s mother used to give her “chillun“ “burnt whiskey“ every morning “to start the day off.“ This burnt whiskey gave them “long life“.
Another thing that Charlie recalls abou.t the Yankees coming