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the ashes again. When they were done we would. take ‘em out, clean off the ashes and eat them. We used. to cook chicken by first cleaning it, but leaving the feathers on, then cover it with clay and. lay it in a hole filled with hot coal s • When it was done we would just knock off the ~ e1à~ and ~ he teat hers would come off with it• ~

	When I was a ‘kid‘ I wore nothing but a ‘three cornered rag‘ and my mother made all my clothes as I grew older. No, the alave8 never knew what underwear was•

	We didn‘t have any clocks to go by; we just went to work when it was light enough and quit when it was too dark to see. When rany slaves took 8iOk they called in a nigger ma~ny who used roots and herbs, that is, unless they were bad sick, then the overseer would call a regular doctor.

	When some slave died no one quit work except relatives and they stop-. ped. just long enough to go to the funeral. The coNins were made on the plantation, these were just rough pine board boxes, and the bodies were buried in the grave yard on the plantation.

	The overseer on the ~efterson plantation, so my father told me, would not allow the slaved to pray ~ and I never saw a b ible unt il after I came north. This overseer was not a religious man and would whip a slave if‘ he found him praying.

	The slaves were allowed to sing and dance but were not allowed to play games, but we did play marbles and cards on the quiet. If we wandered too far from the plantation we were chased and when they caught us they put us in the stockade. Some of the slaves escaped and as soon as the overseer found this out they would turn the blood hounds loose. If they caught any

runaway slaves they would whip them and then sell them, they would never keep a slave who tried to run away.“

NOTE:	Mr. Willianis and his wife are supported by the Old Age Pension. Interviewed by Chas. McCullough.