Polkiore:	$tories Prom ~Ex-~S1aves
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The hands ~ot their rations every Monday night. They got their clothes to wear which they made on old spinriltig wheels, and wove them themselves.

	“The master had his ~ tan~rard and tariiaed his leather and. made shoes for his hands.

	‚ “He had several overseers, white men, and some negro f ore.. men. They sometimes whipped the slaves, that is the overseers. Once a nigger whipped the overseer and had to run .away in the woods and live so he wouldn‘t ~et caught. The niß~er foremen look-. ed after a set of slaves on any special work. They never worked at night unle8s lt was to brine in fodder or hay when it looked like rain was coming. On rainy days, we shucked corn and cleaned up around the place.

	“We had old brick ovens, lots of ‘em. Some was used to make molasses from our own sugar cane we raised.

	“The master had a ‘sick..house‘ where he took sick slaves for treatment, and kept a drug store there. They didn ‘t use old... time cures much, like her~bs and barks, except sassafras root tea for the blood.

	“We didn‘t learn to read. and write, but some learned after the war.

	“My father run the blacksmith shop for the master on the place. I worked around the place. The patrollers were there and we had to have a pass to get out any. The ni€~er children sométimes played out in the road and were chàsed by patrollers. The children would run into the master‘s place and the patrollers couldn‘t get them ‘cause the master wouldn‘t let them. We had. no churches for 8laves, btït went to the white charch and set in the
gallery. AXter freedom, ni~gers‘J~uilt ‘brushharbors‘on the place.