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-	?tWe didntt have a chance to learn to read and


write, and master said if he caugh~b any of his slaves trying to learn he would ‘skin them alive‘.

	“There was a church in the neighborhood on Dr. Blackburn‘s place, but we didn‘t get to go to it much. I was 17 years old when I joined the church. I joined because the rest of the girls joined. I think everybody ought to join the church.

	“On Saturday afternoons the slaves had to work,

and all day Sunday, too, if master wanted them. On Christmas

	Day we was give liquor to get drunk on, but didn‘t have no dinner. tt~j~en I was sick old Dr. P. B. Ruff attended me.


Old Dr. Calmés, I ‘member, traveled on a horse, with saddle-bag behind him, and made~ his own medicines. He made pills from cornbread.

	“I saw riiariy slaves sold on the block — saw mammy


	with little i~fant taken away from her baby and sent away. I saw .faniilies separated from each other, some going to one white master

and some to another.

	“I iiarried at 14 years old to Arthur Bluford. ~e had 10 children. I now have about 8 grandchildren and about 7 or 8 great—grandchildren. I was married in the town of Newberry at the white fo]J~‘s Methodist church, by a colored preacher named Rev.

‚ Geo. De Walt.

	‘~hen freedom come, they left and hired out to other people, but I stayed and was hired out to a man who tried to whip me, but I ran away. Dat was after I married and had little baby. I told my rnaimny to look after my little baby ~ ~ was gone.