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had seTeral picnics, barbecues or anything we wanted to do to pass our time away.“

	“LCter the war was over, and ~ father, brother and uncle had tone to war, it left my mother alone practically. My mother had always been a oook, and that was all she knew, and after the war she got her freedom, she and me, I was seven or eight years old, and my brother was fourteen, and my sister was about sixteen. My mother didn‘t know what to do, and I guess we looked kind of pitiful, finally my master said that we could stay and work for him a year, people worked by the year then. . We stayed there that year, and then we also stayed there the following year, and he paid us the s econd • year . After that we went to another • place ‚ Roof Macaroy, and then n~r sister got married while we were there ‚ and then she moved on her huabazids ‚ master ‚ s place ‚ and then we went too. After that I moved on another part and farmed for two or three years, and then we moved to another part of the plantation and lived there three or four years. That was almost the center of things, and we held. church there. All of the colored people would gather there. The colored people who had been in the North were better educated than the people in the South. They would come down to the South and help the rest of us • The white people would also try to promote religion among the colored people. ~ir church was a big log cabin. We lived in it, but we moved from one of the large rooms into a small one, so we could have church. I remeziber one time after we had been down on the creek bank fishing ‚ that was what we always did on Sunday,.. because we didn ‘t know any better, my ma~te~ ŕalled us boys and told us we should go t.o Sunday school instead of going fishing. I remember that