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two or three otherS, and they took them just like they would &nim~1s, and sold them, that was how ‚ pies ‚ Rolbert got n~r mother . My grandmother was sent to Texas . My mother seid she wrote and had one letter from iiiy grandmother after that, but she never saw her again.w

	i‘~Y mother used to be a cook, and when she was busy oooking, ~ny mistress would nurse both me and her baby, who was four weeks older than me • If It happened the other way around ‚ ~ mother would nurse both of us. They didn‘t think anything about it. Wh.tn the old people died, and they left small orphan children, the slaves would raise the children. My young master was raised like this, he has written to me several times, since I have been out here in Kansas, but the last time I wrote, I have had no reply, so I suppose he was dead.“

	“ehen anyone died, they used to bury the body at least six feet under the ground. There wasn‘t such a thing as a o~iietery then, they were just buriéd right on the plantation, usually close to the house . They would put the body in a wagon ‚ and walk to where to bury the ‚ and they would sing all of the way.“

	“The sla‘v‘es used to dance or go to the prayer meeting to pass their time. There were also festivals we went to, during the Christmas vacation. There was always a big celebration on Clu‘istinas. We worked until Christmas Eve and from that time until New Year‘s we had a vacation. We had no such thing as Thanksgiving, we had never heard of
macha thing.“	~ .

	.	~ “In August when it was the hottest we always had s vacation after our crops were all laid by. That was the time when we usually