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	“De log cabins what de slaves lived in ~s off a piece from de big house. Dem cabins had rock chimblies, put together wid red mud. Dere warn‘t no glass in de windows and doors of dein cabins - jus‘ plain old honie-inade wooden‘ shutters and doors.“ Julia laughed as she told of their beds. “Us calle d ‚ era rourposters, and dat ‚ s what dey was ‚ b ut dey was jus‘ plain old pine posties what one of de men on de plantation made up. Two posties at de head and two at de foot wid. pine rails betwixt ‘em was de way dey made dem beds. Dere warn‘t no sto‘-bought steel springs dein days, not even for de white folks ‚ but dem old cordsprings went a long ways towards rnakin‘ de beds comfortable and. dey holped to hold de bed. together. De four poster beds de white folks slept on was corded too, but

deir posties warn‘t made out of pine. Dey used oak and walnut
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and sometimes real raahogany, and dey carved ‘em up pretty. Some

of dem big old posties to de white folkses beds was six inches thick.

	“Slaves all et up at de big house in dat long old kitchen. I kin jus‘ see dat kitchen now. It wern‘t built on to de big house, ‘cept it was at de end of a big porch dat went from it to de big h~use. ~ Â great big fireplace was ‘most all do ~ ‘cross one end of dat kitchen, and it had racks and cranes for de pots and pans and ovens but, jus‘ let me tell you, our Marster had. a cookstove too. Yessum, it was a real sho‘ ‘nough iron cookstove. No‘ni, lt warn‘t ‘zactly lak de stoves us