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to their heels, ~white and colored, the white men outran the colored huÙL~er, leading the gang. I never went hunting afterwards,

	.	“My choice food was fish and crabs cooked in all styles by mother. You have asked about gardens, yes, some slaves had small garden patches which they worked by moonlight. ~

	“As for clothes, we all wore home-made clothes, the material woven on the looms in the clothes house. In the winter we had woolen clothes and in summer àurfclothes were made from cast-off clothes an&Kentucky jeans. Our shoes were brogans with brass tips. On Sunday we fed the stock, after which we di d what we wanted.

	nI have seen in~ny slave weddings, the master holding a broom handle, the groon jumping over it as a p~rt. of the wedding ceremony. When a slave married someone frc~a another plantation, the master of the wife owned all the children, For the wedding the groom wore ordinary clothes, sometimes you could not tell the ori~iral outfit for the patohe~, and sometimes Kentucky jeans. The bride‘s trousseau, she would wear the oast~off clothes of the mistress, or, at. other times the clothes made by other slaves.

‘lIt was said our plantation contained IÖ,000 acres. We had a large number of slaves, I do not know the number. Our work was hard, from sunup to sundowti. The slaves were not whipped.

	“There was only one slave ever sold from the plantation, she was my aunt. The mistress slapped her one day, she struck her back. She was sold and taken south. We • never saw o r heard of her afterwards.

	“We went to the white Methodist church with slave gallery, only white preachers. We sang with the white people.. The Methodists were christened and

~	the Baptists were baptised. I have seen many colored ±~unerals with no service.. 4 graveyard ôzt the place, only a wooden post tO shà* where you were bùried.