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	t, Got a whuppin‘ once • They want ed me to go after de turkeys and I didn‘t want to go past de graveyard, where de turkeys was. I shot Id‘ t want to go by them grave s • ‘ s s oared iiow to go by a graveyard in de dark • I took de i‘ and somebody eis e n~ist have got de turkeys. Sho‘ I didn‘t drive them up~

	“Slaves spun de thread, loomed de cloth, and made de clothes for de plantation. Don‘t believe I had any shoee• I was just a small gal anyhow then, didn‘t need them and didn‘t want them.

	“Yes, I~s seen nigger women plow• Church? I wouldn‘t fool you, all do slaves big enough and not sick, had to go to church on de Sabbath.

“They give us a half Saturday, to do as we like.

it1 was ‘bout ten years old when de Yankees come. They was full to

de brixawid mischief. They took de frocks out de presses and put thorn on and laugh and carry on powerful. Befo‘ they went they took everything. They took de meat and ‘Visions out de smôke-houso~,and de tiasses, sugar, flour, and meal out de house. Killed de pigs and cows, burnt de gin-

house and cotton, and töok off de live stock, geese, chickens and turkeys. ttAfter de freedom, I stayed.. onwid manmty right dere, ‘tu I married

Levi Bu • s had two ohillun. Dis my granddaughter ‚ . I vis itin ‚ . I never ‚ speot s to have as good a home as I had in slavery tüu, ‘t il I gits

n~T title to dat mansion in de sky. Date de reason Ilikes to sing dat old. plantation spiritual ‚ t Swing Low Sweet Chariot ‚ Jesus Gwinter • Carry ‘ne Home‘ • Does I believe in ~ ligion? ~That else good for colored folks? I ask you if dere ain‘t a heaven, what!s colored folks got to look forward

to? They can‘t git anywhere down here. De only joy they can have here,


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