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1bout, and dat is one thing dat made him so hard on de slaves of de plantation. Jul de overseers I knowed ‘bout wa~ poor white folks; they was white folks in de neighborhood dat was&t able to ovin slaves. All dis class of people was called by us ni~gers, poor white folks.

	tiUs slaves had no schoolin‘, ‘cause dere was no teac~her and

school nigh • ~ plantation. I has learnt to read a little since I got grown. spelling come to nie xiatural. I can spell ¶îtost any word I hears, old as I is.

	“~&rster and mistress was Baptist in ‘ligious faith, ~.nd b‘long to Concord Baptist Church. Us slaves was allowed to ‘tend dat church, too. Us set up in de gallery and j med in de s ingin~ every Sunday . Us slaves could jine Concord Church but Doctor Durham, who wa~ de preacher, would take de slaves in another room from de white folks, and git their ‘fessions, then he would j ins then~ to de church.

~	t‘ My daddy was a slave on Reuben Bouiware‘ s plantat ion ‚ ‚ bout two


miles from Marster Hunter‘s place. He would git a pass to come to see rnaxwxty once every week. If he come more than dat ho would have to skeedaddle through de woods and fields from de patrollers. If they ketched him ~idout a pass, he was ‘ in for a skin crackin‘ whippin‘ • He knowed all dat but he would slip to see xnanmiy anyhow, whippin‘ or not.

	“Most them there patrollers was poor white folks, I believes. Rich folks stay in their house at night, ‘less they has some sort of big frolic amongst theirselves. Poor white foThs had to hustle ‘round to make a living, so, they hired out theirselves~to slave owners and rode de roads at night and whipped niggers if they ketohed. any off their plantation widout