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town of the brutality. He interfered In the treatment of this slave, threatening punishment. He was untied, he ran away, was caught by theconstable, returned to his owner, melted sealing wax was poured over his back on the wounds inflicted by him, when whipping, the slave ran away again and never was caught.

	“There was a doctor in the neighborhood who bought a gIrl and Installed her on the place for his own use, his wife hearing of it severely beat her. One day her little child was playing in the yard. It fell head down in a post hole filled with water and. drown— ed. His wife left him; afterward she said it was an affliction put on her husband for his eins.

	“During hot weather we wire thin woolen clotheB, the material being made on the farm from the wool of our sheep, in the winter we wore thicker clothe s made on the farm by slave s ‚ and for shoe s our measures were taken of each slave with a stick, they were brought to Baltimore by the old mistress at the beginning of each season, if she or the one who did the measuring got the shoe too short or too small you had to wear it or go barefooted.

	~Wewere never taught to read or write by white people.

	“We had to go to the white church, sit in the rear, many times on the floor or stand up. We had a colored preacher, he would walk 10 miles, then walk back. I was not a member of church. ~e had no baptising, we were christened by the white preacher..

	“We had a graveyard on the place. Whites were buried inside of railing and the slaves on the outside. The members of the white family had tombstone s ‚ the colored had headstone s and cedar post to .show where they were buried. ~ .