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•tuk away. Harrison neber see his mammy an‘ pappy agin. Slaves wuz hired out h~r de yeah fot nine hundred dollah.s.“

“Marse Hunt had schools fo‘ de slaves chiluns. I went to school

on Lincoln Hill, too.~

~	preachahs use to curn to plantashun an‘ dey would read

de Bible to us. I tniember one special passage preachahs read an‘ I neber understood it t-~j] I cross de riber at Buffinton Island. It -wuz, ‘But they shall sit every man under his own vine and under his fig trees and none shall make them afraid; for t1~e mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it.“ Micah 4:4. Den I IQ~ows it is de fulfillment ob dat promis ; ‚ I would soon be undah my own vine t fig tree‘ and hab no feah of bein‘ sold dov~n de riber to a mean i~arse. I recalls der ~niz Thorton Powell, Ben Sales and Charley Releford among de preachahs. De church vn~z quite aways frura de hous‘ • When de~“d be baptizins de sîstahs and hrethruns would sing TFreely, freely will you go with me, down to the riber‘. ‘Freely, freely quench your thirst ZIOn‘S sons and daughtahs‘.“

?lHQw wells I ‘member when I v~uz converted. I‘d thought ‘bout

‘ligion a lot but neber wunce wuz I mu~red to repent. One day I went out to cut sum wood an‘ begin thinkin‘ agin and all wunce I feeled so relieved an‘ good an‘ run home to tell granìny an‘ de uthahs dat I‘d cum out at last.“

	“No, we didn‘t wurk o~ Saturday aftahnoons. Christmas wuz big tinte at Marse Hunts hous‘. Preparations wuz made Co‘ it two weeks fo‘~day cuiri. Der wuz corr~ sings an‘ big dances, ‘cepti~) at ‘ligious homes. Der wuz no weddins‘ at Marss Hunts, cause dey had no chilluns