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.	Our be&a were home made ‚ they made them out of poplar wood. and. gave va straw tiCks to sleep on. I got two calico dresses a year and...tbese were my Sunday &reeses and I was only allowed to wear them on week days after they were almost wo rn out • Our shoes were made right on the plantation.

	When any slavee got řick, Mr. Bull, the overseer, got a regular doctor and when a slave died we kept right on worki ng until it was time for the fwi~ era], then we were called in but had to go right back to work as 800fl as it wasover, Coffins were made by the slaveeou.t of poplar lumber.

~	we didn ‘t play many games ‚ the only ones I can r~member are a‘ and

‘marbles‘. No, they would not let us play bards‘.

	One day I was sent out to clean the hen house and to burn the straw. I cleaned the hen house, pushed the straw up on a pile and set fire to it and.

burned the hen house down and. I sure thought I was going to get whipped, but I didn‘t, for I had a good. 1masse1.

	we always got along fine with the ~ chi idren of the slave owners but none of the colored. people would. have anything to do with the ‘poor white trash‘ who were to poor to o~ slaves and had to do their own wo;k.

	There was never any uprisings on ~tr plantatloas and I never heard about

any around where I lived. We were all happy and content ed. and. had goo d tim~s.
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Yes. I can remember when we were set free. Mr. 3u11 told. us and we cut

long soles and fastened balls of cotton on the ends and set fire to them.

Then ‚ we run around with them burning ‚ a.singin ‚ and. a-dancin ~ . No ‚ we did

not try to run away and. never left the plantation until Mr. Bull said we could

go. •

	Uter the war, I iorked ~or Mr. Bull for about a year on the old planta— tion and was treated like one of the family. After that I worked for my brother on a little farm near the old home place. He w~s buying this farni fx~om hie mas—
	ter, Mr. Tom Dal.y.	~ ~