the i‘ taste. I go-L a few things of fenilne dainty that was dis carded by the mistress, bub no money nor did I have any to spend. Thiring in~r life as a slave I was whipped only once, and that was for a lie that was told on rn.e by the first nurse who was jealous of my looks. I slept in the mistress‘ room in a bed that we pushed under the mistress‘ in the day or after I arose.

	“Old Master had special dogs to hunt opossum, rabbit, coons and birds, and men to ~o with them on the hunt. When we seined, other slave owners would send some of their slaves to join ours and we thon divjdin~ the spoils of the ca+chI

	“We had 60 slaves (fl the plantation, each family housed in a cabin bUiJt by the slaves for Nellums to accommodate the families according to the number. For clothes wo had Cood clq‘thes, as we raised sheep, we had our own wool, out ofwhichwe weaved our cloth, we called the cloth ‘box and dice‘.

	teifl the winter the field slaves would shell corn, cut wood and thrash wheat and take care of the stock. We had our shoes made to order by the shoe maker.

	“My mistress was not as well off before she married the doctor as afterward. I was small or younc during my slave days, I always heard my mistress married for money and social condition. She would tell us how she used to say before she was married, when she s~w the doctor coming, ‘here comes old Dr. Nellumsf. Another friend she would say ‘here comes cozen Auckney‘.

	“We never had any overs~rs on the plantation, we had an~old colored man by the name of Peter Taylor. His orders was law, if you wanted to please Mistress and Master, obey old Peter.

	“The farm was very large, the slaves worked fr~»n sunup to sundown, no one was harshly treated or punished. They were punished only iivhen proven guilty of crime charged.

	“Our master never sold any slaves~ We had t~ eix~room house, where the ‚ slaves entert~.ined and had them good times at nights and on holidays. We had no