EX—slave Stories	Page Two
	( Texae)		.4.






	“Mas~ George and Missy Axtericp. 1ivf~d. izi a fine, big house and they owned uiore s1~ves and 1~rid than ari~yb~dy in th~ county and they‘s the richest folks ‘round there. Us s1av~s lived. down the hill from the big hcmse in a d.oubi~ row of 1o~ cabins anil us h~c! good ~ 1i~ce our white folks. My granc1~pa zn~d.e all the beth~ for the white folks and us niggers, too. 1~assa didn‘t want anything shoddy ‘round hifl, he say, not even his nigger qu~xters.

	‚I ~ ~ ~ ot al I diy hand in ‚ thr~ ad to my ma~iin~r t O put in the loom,

tc~Luse they give us homespun clothes, ~.nd you‘d better keep sein if you didn‘t want to ~o naked.

	“Massa had ~. overseer and nigger driv~r call Jacob G~reen. If a nigger washard to make do thc right thing, they‘ ties h&m to a tree, but M~s ~a George never whip ‚ ~m t oo hard, jus ‚ ‚ riough to make ‚ em ‚ have.

	“The slaves what worked in the f1eId~ was woke up ‘fore light with a horn and worked. till dark, and. then there was the stock to tend. to znd cloth to weave. The overseer corne ‘round at nine o‘clock to see if all Is in the bed a~nd then go back to hits own house. When us knowed he ‚ s sound asleep ‘ d. slip out and. run ~ round, sometimes. They locked the young rn*~n up in a house at night 2nd on Sund~ to keep ~eii, from runnint

‘round. It was a log house and had cracks mit ~nd once a little nigger boy pokes his hand. in tryi.n‘ to texise them men and. one of ‘em chops his fingers off with the ax.

	“Massa didn‘ ‚ low no nigger to read. and write ‚ if he knowed it
George Wood was the only one could read and. write and how he 1~rn, a little