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the natiie, 1~Ie y~ captured by the Union soldiers. I never saw him until after the war, when he came home with one arm.

	“The overseer lived on the farm. He was the brother of Mrs. Randorph. He would whip men and women and children if he thou~t they were not working fast.

	“The plantation house was a 1ar~e brick house over—looking the river from a hill, a porc1~. on three sides, two-stories and attic. In the attic slept the house servants and coachnian. We did not come in contact with the white people very much. Our place was away from the village.

	“There were 8,000 acres to the plantation, with more than 150 slaves on it. I do not know the time slaves woke up, but everybody was at work at sunrise and worked to sundo~n. The slaves were whipped for not work~ Ing fast or anything that suited the fancy of the master or overseer.

	“I have seen slaves sold on the farm and I have seen slaves brought to the farm. The slaves were brought up the river in boats and unloaded at the landing, some crying a~nd some seem to be happy.

	“No one was taught to read or write. There was no church on the farm. No one was allowed to read the Bible or anything else.

	ttl have heard it said that the Randotphs lost more slaves by running

away than anyone in the oouniy. The patrollers wore many in the county; they would whip ai~y colored person caught off the place after night. Whenever a man i~ianted to run away he would go with someone el se ‚ e ither from the farm or from some other farm, hiding ih the swamps or along the river, making their way to some place where they thought would be safe, sometimes hiding on trains leaving Virginia.

	“The slaves, after going to their quarters, cooked, rested or did what they w&iated. Saturdays was no different from Mondays