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	“When you married, your husband didn‘ t stay with you like they do now. You had to stay with your rnarster and he had to stay with his. He was ‘lowed to come every Saturday night and stay with you and the chillun ‘tu Monday mornin‘. If he was smart enough to have a little garden or to make little things like little chairs for his ehillun to sit in or tables for ‘em to eat on and wanted you to have ‘em ‘fore he could get back to see you, they would be sent by the runner. They had one boy they always used just to go from one place to the other, and they called him a runne r • The runne r wouldn‘ t do anythin‘ ei se but that.

	“Us made everythint us wore • Ils knitted our soaks and stockin‘s. Things was much better then than they are now. Shoes lasted two and three years, and clothes didn‘t tear or wear out as. easy as they do now. Us made all our cloth at night or lnos‘ time s dunn‘ the winter time when us didn‘ t have so much other work to do.

	AThen a person died he was buried the same day,

and the funeral would be preached one year later. The slaves made your coffin and painted it with any kind of paint they could find, but they usually painted the outside box black.

	“The slaves ‘tended church with their marsters and after their service was over they would let the slaves hold service. They always left their pastor to preach for us and sometimes they would leave one of their deacons. When they left a deacon