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women elavee epwi the thread, wove the cloth and made the clothes. ~Ly mother lived in a twcr~etory farm hou~e. Her children were; Wilhiem~ Vattie

and ThO~flß8. We never had an overseer on the place. Sometimes she‘d whip the colored children, hut only when it wae needed for correction.

GGy~~, sir, I went with i~ young ntaeter, William, to Chester

Court House, and s~w slaves put on a block and auctioned off to the highest bidder, just like land or mules and cattle, Did we learn to read

and write? Wiwere taught to read, but it was against the law to teach a slave to write. The LsgiBiature passed an act to that effect, ~ number of cases i~i which slaves could write, the slave would forge a pass and thereby get away to free territory. They had a time getting them back. on one oceaeion I run in on ray young master ‚ Wil]iax~ ‚ teaching my t.~icle

Reuben how to write, They shoved their confusion,

*Ail slaves wdro compelled to attend church on Sunday, k

gallery around the interior of tho church, contained the bLacks. They were ~~rrnitted to join ~.n the singing, Favorite preacher? ~N.ll, I guess iay favorite preacher was Robert Russell, He was allowed sometimes to use the ~‘hite folks school, which wasn‘t niuch in those drys, just a little log house to hold forth in winter. In summer he got permission to have a brush arbor of pine tops, where large numbers cane, Here they Sang Negro Bpirituals, I re~mber o~e was called: ~Steal away to Jesus . G

0ftunaway slaves 0t Ye s ‚ we had one wo~n who was o ontrary

enough to run away; &ddie, she run off in the woods, My mistress hired her out to the McDonald family, ~e came back and we had to pelt and drive her

away.

GGHOW did we get nsww? 1i~~ay plantations were strict about this,

btrt the greater the precaution the alerter became the slaves, the ‘~rider