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Collud people had no preacher but dey had leadčr. Every slave go to church on Sunday ‘cause dey didn‘t have. any work to do for Massa . My grandma use to teach the catekism an ‚ how to ~:s1ng.

	TtCo‘n shuekin‘ was always done in de night. Dere was also a dance, Es de distance was five miles we would walk dere, work an‘ dance aU. night art‘ come back early nex‘ rnornin~.

	“Fun‘rals was at night an‘ w‘en ready to go to the graveyard

every body would light a lightud knot as torch while every body sing. This is one of the songs wen ‚ use to s irig,
tGoint to carry dis body To the grave-yard, Grave-yard dOn‘ you know me? To lay dis body down.‘
. These are some the games wen‘ use to play,


	-	Have a b.an‘fUl ~f co‘n den say,~ . . ‚t Trow kissey Wilson let him go“

while	the res ‚ is to guess how many co ‘n is lef‘ in his han‘ s. We ain‘t had no doctor, oür Missus an‘ one of de slave‘

would ‘tend to the sick.

~ The yankees take t‘ree nights to march through I was afraid of dein an‘ c:Lim‘ into a tree. Onecall me down an‘ say, “I am your frien‘“ He give me a piece of money an~ I wasn‘t ‘fraid no mo.

After de war I still work‘ as a maid for Mr. Mitchell.