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write at home when we would try to learn. Mistress had a nigger

~	driver fer her carriage, and when he drove he wore a high beaver hat anda long coat.1Our white folks had a big kitchen way off from de

~	O house. Dey had a big wide fireplace where dey cooked over de fire in skillets. My mistress had me to work in de house, kind of a house~ girl, arid she ruade me keep clean and put large ear rings in my ears so I would look good. when Christmas come, Marse and Mistress always give de slaves good things to eat. Dey had lots of cows, and dey ~tve

~	us good butter and miih, molasses, meats arid other good things to eat.

~	~- We always worked on week days except Saturdays,- and sometimes on dat

~	day until 12 o‘clock. We always~had Christmas and Easter hollidays.

~	“We had corñ.-~hucking& and cotton.-pickings. De niggers

~	would singS: ‘Job, Job, farm in~ a row; Job, Job, farm in a row!.

~	Soruetitnes on moonlight nights we had pérxder pullings arid when we got

-	through we had ‘big suppers, always wid-good potatoes or pumpkin pie$,~ de best eating ever. We made corn bread widplenty o~ inilk,eggs and. lard, and sometimes w1d~ sweet potatoes, debest corn bréad in dé

~- - world. ‘Simmori. bread was made wid sifted ‘simmon juice cooked Wid flou “I married first time-to Joe Todd, and ~ad a big wedding: what~ niy mistreas give me -i.tt~ her back yard. She had a big shoat killed

~ I	~er de wedding dinner . My mistress denwas Miss Cornelia Ervin. When Imarried de second time, I niarrie~1 in-town to West Parrow, in de colored people~s Baptist church, by Rev.. West Rutherford, a.-nigger

~	preacher, de- pastor. My second husband died, too, a Lew years ago. ~

- ..	“I can ‘t ‘member xnucb~ ‘bout old songs ‚ but a Ba~pt ist soxig I.~.. •. was: ‘Down to •de water, River o~ Jord~ Down to de water, River .o~

. Jrdon; Dere my Saviör was baptized. ‚	. .