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“Every Sunday he would cal]. us chilluns by name, would sit down and read the Bible to us; then he would pray. If that man ain‘t in the Kingdom, then nobody ‚ s the re

	She said her master never whipped any of the slaves, but she had heard cries and groans coming from other plantations at five o‘clock in the morning where the slaves were being beaten and whipped. Asked why the slave~. were being beaten, she replied rather vehemently, “Just because ~hey wanted to beat ‘em; they could do it, and they did.‘t She said she had seen the blood running down the backs of some slaves after they had been beaten.

	4Dne day a girl about 16 years of age came to herhouzeand said she‘d just as leave be dead as to take thé beatings her master gave her, so one day she did go into the woods and eat sortie poison oaka “She died, too.“

	-	On one plantation she saw an old woman who used to get so many ‘beatings that they put a frame work around her body and ran it up into a kind ofsteeple and placed a bell in the steeple. “Dat woman had to go around with that bell ringas Ing all the time.“

	“:t~ got plenty to eat~ in dem days, got just what


the white folks ate. One day Master killed a deer, brung it in the house, and gave me some of t]~ meat. There was plenty of deer den, plenty of wild turkeys, and wild hogs. Master told me

*kenever I seed a deer to holler and he would kill it.“