Code No.	No. Words_______
Project, 1~5-(1)	Reduced £~d~ni~Ji~rds
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by
Place, Marion, 8.0.	____________________
Date, September 21, 1937	ge~Ç~	~  ~

at Marion, but I never saw any sold. Just hear bout dat, but I remembers I saw dis. Saw six men tied together wid. a chain one 8aturday evenin dat was comm from Virginia en gwtne to Texaa.~

	“Some people helped de slaves to read en write en some of dem dtdn‘ • Boy learnt one of my uncles to read, but didn‘ want him to write. People learn to s~ll in dem times better den dey do now. Some of de slaves could read de Bible en den others of dem could write dese pass dat dey had to get from dey Massa fore dey could go from one plantation to another. I recollects my mother‘s father could write a pass.“

	“Dere waan‘ no church on ~de plantation whe‘ I stay. Had preachin tu Mr • Tord‘ s yard Some t unes en den another t line de slaves went to white people ‚ s church at Bear Swamp. Boss tel]. slaves to go to metin cause he say he pay de preacher. mean Lare, white man~, gave ou~t speech to de slaves one day dere tO N ichole, Slaves sat in gallery when dey go dere • He tell dem to obey dey Massa en Missue. Den he say, ‘God got a clean kitchen to put you in. You think you gwine be free ‚ but you am‘ gwine be free long as dere an ash in Aahpole Bwamp.‘White folks complain bout de slaves gettin two sermons en dey get one. After dat, dey tell old. slaves not to come to church till after de ~hite folks had left. ~at never happen till after de war was over.“