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raised and combed our own cotton, clipped the woo]. from our sheep‘s backs ‚ combed and spun it into cotton and wool clothe s • We never knew what boughten clothes were. I learned to make shoes when I was just a boy and I made the shoes for the whole fsmlly• I used to chop wood and make rails and do all kinds of ~rm work.“

	“I had a good master, most of the masters were good to their slaves. When a slave got too old to work they would give him a small cabin on the plantation and have the other slaves to wait on him. They would furnish him with victuals, and clothes until he di.d.e

	“Slaves were never allowd toiz~lk to white people other than their masters or someone their master knew, a~ they were afraid the white man might have the ~tave run away. The masters aimed to keep their slaves in ignorance and the ignorant sieves were all in favor of the Rebel army, only the ~re intelligent were in favor~of the Union arn~y.“

	.	“When the war started, my master sent me to work for the Confederate arq~. I worked most of the time for three years off and on, hauling canons, driving mules, hauling a~imunition, and provisions. The Union army pree sed in on us and the Rebel army m~ ed back • I was e ent home • When the Union army came C b s e enough I ran away from home and joined the Union arm~j.. There I drove six-mule teem and worked at wagon work, driving anmiunition and ail kinds of provisions until the war ended. Then I returned home to ~r old master, who had stayed there with my mother. My master owned about four hundred acres of good land, sad had had ten slaves. ~os.t of the si~es ete~ed at home. My master hired me to work for him. He gave my mother forty acres ~ of land with a