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dey stayed in de kitchen er cookin‘ an‘ er bakin‘ ~ daye wuz
de bes‘ light bread — great big loaves baked on de fire place, an‘ cakes an‘ mo‘ good ginger cakes. Dey wuz plenty cooked

up to las‘ er long time. An‘ another thing, dare want no

cookiLL‘ on Sunday, no niam, no wu‘k of no kind.~ My Mistess had de cook cookin‘ all day Fridays an‘ Saddays so when Sunday conie darewuz hot coffee madean‘ dat wuz all, everything else wu~
cooked up~ an‘ cold, Everybody went to Church, de grown folks
white and black, went to de preachin‘ an‘ den all de little niggers wti~ called in an de Bible read an‘ ~sp1ained ter dein.

	“Dare wuz preachin‘ down in de Quarters, but dat waz at night an‘ wuz~ led by de colored preachers.~i recollects one

	night dare wuz a servlöë g~ont~~~of de cabins an‘ all ; us wuz dare an‘ oie Uncle Alex Frazier wuz up a 1mm‘ off a ~: hymn ‘bout

‘Broad is de road dat leads ter Death An‘ there an‘ here we travel.‘

when in come some mens atter a colored fellerwhut had stole

	some sheep an‘ hogs. Dey kotch ‘im, but sho broke up de meetin‘. ~ ~‘Ï~ de hot summer time Uncle ~oorge ~u1latt use ter preach ter

de slaves out under de trees. Uncle (george waz a kind of er preacher.

	“~(y Pa didn‘t ‘low his chillun ter go ‘roun‘. No‘m, he kep‘ us home keerful lak. Young folks in dein days didn‘t go all over

de country lak dey does now, dey stayed at home, an‘ little chillun wuz kep‘ back an‘ dey didn‘ know no. badness lak de chillun do