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	“During de preaohin~ us darkies sot in de back o‘ de church. Our white folks had some benches dar dat didn‘t nobody set on ‘cept de slaves. Us wore de best clo‘es dat us had. De Marse give us a coat and a hat and his sons give all de old hats and coats ‘ro~d Us wore shirts and pants made from de looms. Us kept dem elean‘t and Ironed jes‘ like de Marster and de young marsters done theîr‘n. Den ~is wore a string tie, dat de white folks done let us have, to church. Dat ‘bout de onliest time dat a darky was seed wid a tie. Some de oldest men even wore a cravat, dat dey had done got from de old marster. Us combed our hair on 5uxiday fer church. But us never bothered much wid ~it no other time. During slavery ~cme o‘ de old men had ~hort plaits o‘ hair.

	“De gals come out in de starch dresses 1er de cs~rnp meeting. Dey took dey hair down out‘n de strings fer de meeting. In dem days all de darky wiinmens wore dey hair in string ‘cep‘ when dey ‘tended church or a~edding. At de camp meetings de wiminens pulled off de head rags, ‘cept de maninies. On dis occasion de mainmies wore linen haad rags fresh laundered. Dey wore de best aprons wid long streemers ironed and starched out a hanging dowa dey backs. All de other darky wimmens wore de black dresses and dey got hats from some dey wh its lady fa lks ; t as us mens got hats from our‘n. Dem wiuuneus dat couldn‘t git no hats, mostly wore black bonnets. De nigger gals and winches did all de dressing up dat dey could fer de meeting and also, fer de barbecue.