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	241-‘SnLity Hodges, Ex-slave, Pike	County
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	Mrs. W. F. Holmea


Iota an‘ lots of money. I doan know how many acrea in hie plantation, but he had niore‘n 50 slaves.

	“~Then lEarse Cassedy was gone, his oberseer would be hard on de slaves, but Marse Cassedy would tell hirn not to be too hard. He never ‘lowed his driver to draw de blood when dey whupped. He fed his slaves. Dey all had gardens and he tuk care of us. He had money

in every one of us. De oberseera was white men workin‘ fer wages. WI was never whupped afte‘ I went to Marse Cassedy. Slaves

was whupped when dey wouldn‘t work right. Sometimes dey was lazy. De oberseer blowed a horn every mornin‘ and de slaves knowed to git up, an‘ when dat horn blowed agin, dey knowed dey must go to de fiel‘. Dey blowod de horn at dinner an‘ night. Afte‘ supper, we set ‘bout an‘ sing an go places. Sometimes de men would steal off an‘ go ter other plantations, an‘ wnen kotched dey got a whuppin‘. If de pataroller got em, dey 8î1O~ kotched it. Dey was w~iupped an~ brung back.

	.. :~ ~• ~ ~ c•~De white folks nad big dances in de Big House and de niggers : played de fiddle. Dey Wa8 fine times. Dey had good things ter eat, an‘


.	I allus got some of whut was lef‘. Christmas time de slaves had dances~

~	I could sho‘ shuffle my feet. Shucks, folks doan dance like dat any more.

~—--.~ .~ ‘When slaves was sick, dey ~nt to de woods and got roots an‘ herba ter doctor ‘em wid. If dey had runnin‘ off of de bo~~le, dey got red oak barks an‘ boiled it an‘ made ‘em drink it. Tt‘s de beat thing

right now to cure runnin‘ off of de bowels. If young gals had pains in dey stomachs dey made tea out ‘n guru bark and dat would bring ‘em ‘round • When babies W~8 born, dey had good midwives to wait oi~ ‘em. Dat was good money.