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t em were part mdi an ‚ an ‚ me an . Dey all loved him doe.

I never saw a slave sold. He kept his slaves together.

He didn‘t want to git rid of az~y of ‘em. We went to de .

white folks church at Neill‘s Creek a missionary Baptis‘

Church.

	“We played during the Christmas holidays ‚~ t we got ‘bout two weeks 4th of Jul~r, and lay by time, which wus ‘bou~t the fourth. We had great tinies at corn. shucldn‘s, log rollin‘s and cotton pickin‘s. We had dances. Marster lowed his S‘aves lots o‘ freedom. ~y mother used to say he wus better den other folks. Yes, she said her marster wus better than other folks.

	“The white folks didn‘t teach us to read an~ write. I cannot read an‘ write, but de white folks, only ‘bout half or less den half, could read an‘ write den. Dere were very few pore white folks who could read an‘ write. I remember de baptizin‘s at 4~ Reu‘oen Matthews Mill Pond. Sometimes after a big meetin~j dey would baptize twenty four at one time. No slaves run away from Marster. Dey didn‘t have any souse to do so, cause whites and colored fared alike at Marster‘s. We p‘ayed base, cat, roiJy hole, and a kind of base ball called ‘round town.