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to bed and rest. Vie worked all day on Saturdays, but never worked on Sundays . On Christmas Days we had off, and Marse would give us good thin~ to eat and some vvLiisk~y to drink.

	PtMy mother worked around de house in slaviry time. She helped cook, clean up arid wash dishes, and sometimes she would card, spin and.weave.

	ttDey used to make a yellowish dye from mud, a grayish dye from maple tree berk and a brov~nish dye from walnut tree bark. We allue plc~nted by de •si~ds or de scE~1es.~irish potatoes, turnips and sweet potatoes we ~lanted in de dark of de moon; v~hile beans was pl~nted in desi~n of de craw-~fish. ~

	“I ren1ember v~hen de yankees con~e tiirou~h atter de war. Dey stole everythiri~g and burnedup everything dey couldn‘t steal. De Ru Klux wasin our section. Dey killed lots of ni~~ers arotmd dar.

	-	“I d.on~t remember anything about ~tbra~am Lincoinnor Jefferson Davis, only heard about dem. I don‘t i~now much about
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SÖurce:	M~.ry Jane Kelley (N, 85), Ne~berry, SIC• ~
Interviewer~:	G.L. Summer, Newberry, 5. C. 11/10/37.
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