Ex..slave Stories	P8€5 TWO	(3‘T~
(Texas)





Then tie and my mother started a family out here. I don‘ know what become of hi~ ftily back in Virginny, ‘~au.s~ when we was freed ne stayed with us.

	“When I got old enough I was ho~issgirl and used t~ cax‘ry notes for Miss Mary to the neighbors and. bring back anawsre. Miss Mary would say, ‘Now, Virginny, you take this note to sech and each place and be surs and b. back in se eh and se eh t tine ‚ ‚ and. I ail i.tB was.

	“Massa Lewis had four or five fa~i1ies cf us slaves, but ws us.d to hays some ta.n after work and ue young folks would skip rope and~ play ring games, Dunn‘ week days the field hands would work till the sun was jus‘ goin‘ down and then tile o~erseer would holler t ail gh‘ and that was the signa]. to quit. AU hands knocked off Sat‘day noon.

	~	~We didn ‚ have no scrxoolin‘ or pre~~hjn~ . Only the white folks had them, but sometimes on Suiidaye we‘d go up to the house and listen to the white folks singin‘.

	“Iffen axiy~ o:r tne slave hands wanted to git married, Massa Lewis would git them up to the house after supper time, have tus man and woman j me hands and then read to them outen a book. I g~iess it was the Scriptures. Then he‘d t.ll ‘em they was married but to be r.ady for work in txi. moritin‘ • Massa Lewis married us ‘cordin‘ to

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“Musa used. to feod us good, too, and. we iiad plenty clothes.
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