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The only one that Mrs. McD~nie1 remembers is that which was made from saesa~ fras root s . “This was good. to clean the system ‚ „ says Mrs • McDaniel • When.. ever ~ they were sick they d~id not have to report to the master‘ s houee each day as was the case on some of the other plantations• There were never any pretended illnesses to avoid work as far as Mrs• McDaniel knows•

	On Sunday all o±~ the slaves on the Hàte plantation were permitted to these in their Simday clothes and go to the white church in town. Dm~ing the moi~ning services they sat in the back of the church where they listened to the white pastor deliver the sermoh. In the afternoon they listened. to a sermon that was preached by a colored minister. Mrs. McDaniel has~i~.t the slightest idea of what these sermons were about. She remembers how marriages were performed, however, although the only one that she ever witnessed took place on one of the neighboring plantations. After a broom was placed on the ground a white minister read, the scriptures and then the couple in the process of bei~ mar~ ned. jim~ped over this broom. They were then considered as man and wife.

Whippings were very uncommon the the Hale plantation. Sometimes Mr.

Kale had to resort to this form of punis1~ment for disobedience on the part

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of some of the servants. Mrs. McDaniel says that she ~sbu~ whipped many

times but only once with the cowhide. Nearly every time that she was whipped a switch was used. She has seen her mother as well as s~e of the others punished but they were never beaten unmercifully. Neither she or any of the other slaves on the Kale plantation ever came in contact with the “Paddie~ Rollers ‚ A wh~ they knew as a groi~ of whi te men who went around whipping slaves who were caught away from their respective homes without passes from their masters. When asked about the bi~.ying and the selling of slaves Mrs. Mc.. Daniel said that she had. neyer witnessed an auction at which slaves were being sold and that the only thing she ~ew about this was what she had been told