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de chillun on Saturdays . She also looked out for de slave chiiluris on Sunday. Ivly father wus n~ned Marcillus Litt1e~ john and my mother wus named Susan Little john.

	‘1We had gardens and patches and plenty to eat. ~ie also got de holidays. Marster bought charcoal from de men which dey burnt at night an ‚ on holidays . Dey worked ant made de stuff, an‘ marster would let dem have de steer~ carts an‘ wagons to carry deir corn an~ charcoal to sell it in town, Yes sir, dis wus mighty nice. ~/e had plank houses. Dere wus not but one log house on de plantation. Marster lived in de big house. It had eight porches on it.

	“Dere wus no churches on de plantation, an‘ I doan re~ member any prayer rneetin ‚ s • When we sang we turned de wasb~ pots an‘ tubs in de doors, so dey would take up de noise so de white folks could not hear us. I do remember de ~atherin‘s at our home to pray fur de Yankees to come. All de niggers thought de Yankees had blue bellies. The old house cook got so happy at one of dese rneetin‘s she run out in de yard anT called, ‘Blue bellies come on, blue bellies come on.‘ Dey caught her an‘ carried her back into de house.

---	“Whende overseer whupped one o‘ de niggers he made all de slaves sing, ‘Sho‘ pity Lawd, Oh~ Lawd for~ive~. When dey sang awhile he would call out one an‘ whup him.