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	“We raised hogs, sheep, goats, cows aria ulenty chickens; raised everyttiin~ at home, arid had a good. garden with plenty vege~ tables. Dem cows arid hogs ant. other cattle were branded and allowed to graze around. in bottoms oi~ de lowlands ~vhar aar was no ±~ence.

	“My clothes was xci:de from yarn souri by my mammy, and she rn~de~rny clothes, too. Marse had. ~ay mammy to spin and weave for all de slaves on de place. But rnarse arid mistress was good to us. He had a rii~ger overseer who sometimes brought a nig~r to marse when he misoehaved; den xnarse would ~iave ae ni~~er overseer to whip him. Be had S to 10 slaves all de time.

	“Some slaves dat lived on olaces close to us would run off son~etimes a~i~ rude in de woods, arii live dar in a den which dey dug. :~t rii~ht aey vvould ~O out arid hunt tood, like hogs; den ~iil ‘ein at ni~~ht aria dress ‘em. yost of de day dey would stay in de den.

t?1 ‘member ~hen treedon~ come, old marse said, ‚ You is all

free, but you can vvork on arid make dis cr~p of corn and cotton; den I will divide up wid you ~vhen Christmas cornes. ‚ Dey all worked, and when Ohristnias come, marse told us we Could get on and shuffle for ourselves, and he didn‘t give us anything. We had to steal corn out of de crib. We prized de ears out betvueen ae cracks andI toDk dem home arid parched dem. We would have to eat on dese for several days.

	“We had to work all day, sun up to dark, and never had Sat~ urday afternoons off anytime. My mam~y haci. to wash clothes on Saturday nights for us to wear on Sundays.

	“We chaps played marbles most all de time. Marse used to try to scare us by telling us dar was spooks. Some of de o]~d folks did believe in spooks, but I don‘t know much about dem. ~1e never used much medicine den but quinine. Folks had lOts ci chills den, but dey never had any kind of strokes or things like dat as dey do dese days.