the etock tirst. By*e tla. it waslight enough t see they had. to b. iù

the fiel&. where thE~r host the cotton and. the corn as well as the ither crop.. • Between ten and eleven o‘clock everybody lsft the uisid aM went to the houes where they worked. mitil it was too dark te see. My tiret job was to teke breakfast to those working in the fields. I used buckets for this. Beeides thu I had to dxive the cows to and from the pasture. Ph. rset o! the day W~8 spent in taking care of Mrs. Kale‘ s yo~ang children. After a few years of this I wø.B Bent to the fields where I p].antsd peas, corn, etc. I also had.

to pick cotton when that time cams, but I never had to bes and d.o the heavy work like m~ mother and. sisters did.‘ According to Mrs. McDaniel they were seldom requir•& to work at night after thsy had 1.ft the fields bu.t when suàh occasions did arise thsy were ‘as~a11y in the form of spinning thread and. veavizg ‚ cloth. During the winter months this was tie only typs of work that they did. On days when the weather was too bad for work out of doors they sh.11.d the . corn anti peas and did other minor typss of work not requiring too much .xposurs. Nobody had to work on Satt~rday afternoons or on Sundays. It was on Sattirdays or at night that the slaves bad the c~bai~c to do their own work such as the repairing of c1othin~, etc.

On the Hale plantation c1othin~ was issued two tises each year, once at

the beginning of s~sr and again at the beginning of the unter season. On this first issue ail. were given striped. dresses made of cotton ~ateria1. These dresses wsre for wear during the week while dresses ~d.s of white muslin vers givsn for ~ wear. The dy. which was necessary in ordsr to color those clothes worn durizg the week ~s aids by boiling red. dirt or the bark of trses in water. $~aetimes the indigo berry was also used. TM winter issae consistsd.

of drsss•s mad.. of woolen material . The socks and stoc~ngs vers all ~itt.d..

All of this wearing apparsl s made by Mrs. aals. The shoes that the. ~ slaves wore were made in the nearby tom at a place biown as the tan yafds.