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lived in a large white frame house containing about 15 rooms with every luxury of that day, my father being v~y rich.

	“I have heard the Rando1ph‘~. plantation contained about 4000 acres and at,out 300 slaves. We had white overseers on the plantation, they worked hard producing rice on a very large scale, and late and early. I know they were severe‘y punished, especially for not producing the amount of work assigned them or for things that the overseers throught they should be punished for.

	‘~We had a jail over the rice barn where the slaves were confined, especially on Sundays, as punishment for things done during the week.

	“I could read andv~nrite when I was 12 years old. I was taught by the teacher who was the governess for the Randolph~ children. Mother could also read and write. There was no church on the plantation; the slaves attended church on the next plantation, where the owner had a large slave church, he was a Baptist preacher, I attended the white church with the Randolph children. I was generally knov~n and called Jim Randolph. I was baptised by the white Baptist minister and christened by a ~ethodist minis~ber.

	“There was little trouble between th~ white and blacks, you see I was one of the children of the house,I never came in contact much ~Lth other slaves. was told that the slaves had a drink that was raade of corn and rice which they drank. The overseers ~ometirnes themselves drank it very freely. On holidays and Sundays the slaves had their times, and I never knew any difference as I was treated well

~	by my father and did not associate with the other slaves.

	“In the year of 1865, 1 left South Carolina, went to Washington, entered Howard. University • 1868 ‚ graduated in 1873, taught schools in Virginia ‚ North Carol iria and Maryland, ret~ired 1910. Since then I have been connected With A.M.E. education~~al board. Wow I am home with my granddaughter, a life well spent.

~	tt~e of the songs sung by the slaves on the plantation I o~.u ~ remember
 a part of it.	They sang it with great feelingof happiness -
.~ ~ ; . ~	. Oh where shall we go when de g~8~t day comes ~ ~ ~	.	‚