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on de ~1ace fo‘ vrintah clothes. Th had better clothes to weah on Sun~ clay and ‘~re weahed shoes on Sunday. The‘ shoes and boots wuz made on de plantashun.“

	“My inastah vTuz Marse Harley Hunt an‘ his wife vmz Miss Maria Sanders Hunt. Marse and Miss Hunt didn‘t hab no chilluns of der o~v~ but a nephew Marse Oscar Mar-bin and niece Miss Mary Hunt fri~un Missouri lived with T€~q~ Deyts ail kind to us slaves. De Hous‘ vrnz great big white frame with picket fence ail ‘round de lot. When we lived Char1‘~ stun :~rse Hunt viuz a rna~istrate. Miss Hunt‘s muthah and two aunts 1 ive ci with ‚ rat‘

	“No mani, we didn‘t hab no ovahseeah. Marse Hunt had no use f ~‘


oirahseeahs, fact is he ‘spise ?~rn. De oldah men guided de young ones in deir labors. The poor white neighbahs ;~mrn‘t ‘lowed to live


~	very close to de plan-bashun as Marse Hunt wanted de culured slave chiliuns to be raised in propah rn~nnah.1T

	ni duzntt know how many acres in de plantashun. Deir wuz only ‘bout three or fo‘ cabins on de place. ~Îurk started ‘bout seben clock ‘cept harvest time when ebrybudy wuz up early. De slaves didn‘t wurk so hard nor hery late at night. Slaves Wuz punished by sendin‘ ~zn off to bed early.

	When I‘se livin‘ at Red House I seed slaves auctioned off. 01‘ Marse Veneable sold ten or lebin slaves, women and chilluns, to niggah tradahs way down farthah south, I well ‘members day Aunt Millie an‘ Und‘ Edmund wuz sold. ~ dir son Harrison wuz bought by Marse Hunt. ‘T‘wuz shure sad an‘ folks cried when Aunt Millie and Und‘ Edmund wuz