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thum‘ to littl• finger, an‘ ‘iwas cut in stripe up. ‘b‘ done SIOfl dese whips dat they whip horses wid? ?~e11 dey w~ uied too.

	You sod somethin‘ ‘bout how we served God. Um, ~ child, I tell you jest how we use to do. ~e use to worship at different houses. You see you would git a remit to go to deee places. You would have to show your remit. If de Pattyrollere, caught you dey would whir yo‘. Date de wa‘ dey dore in dem da‘s. Fattyrollers, is a gang of white men git— ting together (~øin‘ through de country catching slaves, an‘ whipping an‘ beatin‘ ‘em up il dey had no remit. ~4arster Allen wouldn‘t ‘how no one to whip an‘ beat hii~ elavee, an‘ he would handle anybody if aey did; 80~ Marster‘s slaves met 8fl worshipped from house to house, an honey, we talked to~)J~‘ God all US wanted.

You know we use to call Mareter i¾llen, Colonel Allen. His name w~z

	.	He ma home general7 an ‚ a law) er ‚ too • hen he went to court any slave he said to free, wu.z freed an‘ turned aloose. De white fo‘ks aa4well as slaves obeyed Mareter Allen.

	Did you know poor whites like slaves had to git a pass? I mean, a remit like as slaves, to sell anythin‘ an‘ to go places, or do anythir&‘. Jest am we iColoredfreo~le~ dey had to go to some big white man like

Colonel EJJ.en, dey1 did • If Mareter wanted to, he would‘ give dem a remit
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or pasa3ari‘ if he didn‘t feel like it, he wouldn‘t do it. lt ~‚~_ jee as
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he felt ‘bout hit. ~ts what made all feared him. 01‘ Marster ~z

more hard on dem poor White fo~ke din he ~ on us niggers.
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I don‘t know but two sets of white foJ‘ke slaves up my way; one ~

naine Œiatman, an‘ de tother one Nellovies. Dese two families worked on Allen‘s farm as we did. Off from us on a plot called Morgan‘s lot, there dey lived as slaves jes like us colored fo‘ks. Yes de poor white man had so~z~e dark an‘ tough d7, like us poor nigger.; I mean wert.~