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old, ‘ilgious niggers ~nd let them finish with the singin‘ ~nd pr2yin‘ ~nd t7ort1n~ After p~acri c1~,area, a scnool was ‘stablisli ~xui a wrxite !nan cO1~e t~rŒa trie north to teacz~i ~zie c~d.A~.a CLL~llCfl~ out ~ that ~LLey did~n~ taic~no :paiMs to teach tac niggere flOttLint ‘cep;1n1 to work, ~nd tÏiC Wfl.i~,e crililen alun‘ ~‚ nave mucrn schooL neti~ner,

tlThp,t wa~ on~ plantatori wh~~t w~B mn tt~clu~i~e1y 1~r Itself,

~assa Ri~aes have a commissary or sto‘ house, whar he kep‘ whatnot things them what make on the plantation and things the slaves COU1dII‘ make for themseifs. That wasn‘t much, ~c~use we make us own clothes and. shoes and plow and. all farm tools and US even make our own plow line out‘n cotton and iffen us zun short of cotton soraetiine make them out‘n bear gr~Bs and we make butt ons f or us cl othes o‘ n 1 1 1 round pieces of gourds and kiver them with cloth. •

“That wasn~ t sich a ~bI1~ plantat ion, ‘bout a t ‚ ouzand acre and.

only tbout forty nIgg~rs. TherP waSin. no jail ~id they didn‘t ne~ed none. Us have no re~J. doctor, but of cc~.irse there was a doctor rrian at Jasper ‘md one ~t Newton, but ~.. nigger have to be purty sick ~for~e they call. a doctor, There‘s allus some old time nigger what knowed lots of remedies and ~owed ~l dlf‘rent kinds of yarbe and roots, My grand-daddy, he co~iId stop blood, end. he could c~n~ure off the fever and rub his fingers Over warts ‘-~zid they‘d gi~t away. He make 11e outtn rattlesr.2ke for the

	urna‘ • For the cramp he git a kind of bark offen a tree and it done the j ob ‚ oo • Some niggeris ‘ brass rings to keep off the rhe-cmiat is‘ ~nd punch hole in a penny or dixn~ ~nd wear tnat on the aflkle to keeP off