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about it. Men used to come through an buy up slaves for foreign states where there warn‘ t so many.

	“Well, I didn‘t have no privilege to learn to read and write, but the white lady what taught my gran‘ma to weave, had ~ „~ runthe factory, and they taught my uncles to read and write.

	~ ‚t The re warn‘ t no chur cli on the ~p1an ta t I on ‚ s o we went to Mars Hill Church. The whit1e folks went in the mornings from nine ‘tu twelve and the slaves went in the evenings from three ‘till about

five. The white folks went in the front door and slaves used the ~‚ back door. -~ev. ~edford Lankford, what preached. to the white folks helped a Negro, named Cy Stroud, to preach to the i~egroes. Oht Yes, Ma‘arn, I well remembers them ba2tizin~5. I believe in church and baptizing.

	“They buried the slaves on the plantation, in coffins made out of pine boards. Didn‘t put them in two boxes laic dey does J10W~ and dey warn‘t painted needer.

	“Did you say patterollers? Sho‘ I seen ‘em, but they didn‘ t come on our plantation, ‚ cause Marss Billy was good. to his Negroes and when they wanted a pass, if it was for a good reason, he ~ive ‘em one. Didn‘t none of Marss Billy‘s slaves run off to no North. When Marss Billy had need to send news somewhere, he put a reliable Negro on a mule and sent him. I sho‘ didn‘t hear about no trouble twixt white folks and Negroes.

	“I tell you, Honey, when the days work was over them slaves went to bed, ‚ cep‘ when the moon was out and they worked in their own cotton patches. On dark nights, the women mended and