Ex-slave Stéries	Page Tw.	cwt
(Texas)





man when thinge dldn ‚ t g. right.. A yell.w a~n driir her d•wu In ~ a tw•-hsrse avalanche. She h~ad a white man f.r •verseer what live in a giod. hause cI.se t G the quarters. It was whitewashed and had glass wincl•ws. She built a nice church with g1a~s windows and. a br~s cupsi. Thr the blacks and a yelliw man preached t. us. She had him preach h•w we wac t s ebey sur master and missy j t‘ we want t ~ ~o t o Heaven ‚ but when ehe w1 t t here ‚ he c~m e ~ut with straight preachin‘ from the Bible.

	. UG~d graci•us ‚ what we h~1 to eat . The y give U5 plenty, turnip

greens and heg~jowI..and pea~ and. cernbread and. milk by the barrels. Old.

w•rAen what was t ~ eid t o wGrk in the field. dcne the ~ookin ‚ and. tended. the

babies. They cooked the c.rnbre~4 in a •ven ~nd br.wnèd it like cake. When they pulled it ~ all the chilien was standin‘ round, tsu~ckint tbe~r.iips. :~very Christmas us got a set white lowe1l~ clothes and a pair br3gan sh~ee ::~.nd they done us the whole year, or us go n9ked.

	“When that ~ig bell rnn~ at four o‘cl.ck you‘d. better get up, tcause the overseer was standin‘ there with a whippin‘ strap if you was late. 1.ty daddy g~t a sleepin‘ m.st every morning fer •versleeping. Them mules was
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~.	stand.in‘ in the field at daylight, waitin‘ t. see how to plow a straight furrow.


If a nigger was a 500 p.und. cGtton picker and dith~‘t weich up that much at night, that was notgittirig his task and he got a whipping. The last weighin‘ was d•ne by light in‘ a. candle t o s es the scales .

	IIUS have small dances Saturday nÏg~ts and ring plays and banj. and fiddle playint atid kn•ckin‘ bones. ~ Th~ was. fiddles make from giurde aiad

bänj.ee froa shéep hi 5às. I ‘member onesong, ‘C.ffee grows ou white •alc p River flows wit h brandy ..• ‚ ‚ That s ong was s1~art ed in Tickebu~rg by
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