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to pay de toll. Dat road whare de Savannah Road isa“

	When asked about war times on the plantation. Ellen recalled that when the Northern troops were around Waynesboro orders were sent to all the masters o:e the nearby plantations to send. ten of their best ~en to build breastworks to hold back the northern advance.

	‚ ~‘Do you roeteinber anything about the good times or weddings on the plantation‘?“

	She laughed delightedly. ~Yastm.Vihen anybody gwine be married dey tell de boss and he have a cake fix. Den when Sunday cc~ne, atter dey be !nar:ried, she pu~t on de white dress she be married in and dey go up to town so de boss see de young couple.“

	“Den sometimes on. Da4day night we have a big frolic • De nigger frtmi Ea~mnond‘ s place and. Pttinizy place, Eve place ‚ Clayton place ‚ D ‘Laigle place all git togedder fer big dance and frolic. A lot o‘ de young white sports used to corne dere and ~~ah de nigger backs aside ài~ dance wid de wenches.“

	“What happened, Auntie, if a slave from one plantation wanted to n~arry a slave froni another?“

	She laughed significantly. “Plenty. Old Mr. Miller had. a man name ~ol1y and ~e wanner n~rry a woman off annuder plantachun, but Jolly‘s Marster wanna buy de wcxinan to c~me to d~ plantachun. He say, ‘Whut‘~ fair fer de goose is fair fer de gander.‘ When dey couldn‘t come to no ‘greerrient de man he run away to de woods. Den dey ebt de bloodhounds on ‘1m. Dey let down de rail fence so dci hounds could git fru. Dey sareh de woods and de swamps fer Tolly but dey neber find. him.

	“De slaves dey know whar he is, and de woman she visit ~1m. He had a den down dere and plenty o‘ grub dey take ‘im, but cia white tolks neber find him. Five hundred dollars wus what LiUer put out Thr whomsover git him~“