Ex—slave Stories	Paie flve
(Texas)




	“When one of the eLnres would die, they would bury tem on

	the ind there~ Reg‘lar little cemetery there, Oh, yes, they would. ha~~ doctors for ~eia. If anybody died, they would teU some of the

other slayei to d.ig the gi~ve ath take t~ out there and bury tea. They . j, put tem In a boi, no preachin‘ or nothin. But, of coiu‘se, if it

waB Sunday the slaveB would follow out there and sing. No, if they didn‘ die on Sunct~y, you couldn‘ go; you went to that field.

	“If you wanted to go to ~xiy other p1~~.ntation you had. to git a pass to ~o ov~‘r there, and. if you didnt ~ got caught, you got one of

the worst whippins‘. If things happened ~~nd they wanted t~tell tern on other plazitations, they would. slip out at night and. tell ~exn.

	“We never he ered. much about the fightin ‚ • or how it was go in. ~ When ~ the war finally was over, our old bOss çalled us all up ~nd had. us to stand in abreast, and he stood on the gallery and he read the verdict to tes, ~nd

s aid ‚ t Now, you can j ~ s ~ work on i f ~rnu want t o ‚ ~d I ‚ 11 tre9t you j‘

~	~ . like I always did. t I guee~ when he said, that they knew what be meant. t wasn‘ t bat one family left with ‚ im. They et ayed about two years.

But the rest waa just like birds ‚ they j e ~ fie w.

	“X went with my father and he hired nie out for two years, to a

man naiied Riley, over on the Seco. I cUd most everythin‘ ‚ worked the field

and was house ru~stler, too, But I had a good time there. After I left~ t ja, I came to D‘Hanis . • I worked. on a church house they was bulld.int.

Titen I went back to ~y father gnd. worked. for him a long time, . fréightint

~ ~ .	eött~:~n to Zs~ ?a,es. I used. horses and. aules and hauled. cotton and floii.r au~ ivhis~, ixitt things like that.
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