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tue exact ńümber of servants her master owned.

	“Edle was de laun&ress,“ she recalled, ‘ian‘ Arne, she was de

weaver. Den dere was Becky, Melia, Aunt Mary, Ed, John1and Uncle George the house man, who marHedAunt Evalina. Jake was de over-‘looker (over‘.. seer.) H~ was a great, big cullud. man. Dar was more, but 1 cantt ‘:nernher. I was jes‘ a little shaver den.“

	She remembers that the Big House was huge and white witha beautifui oarlor and. guest room, where the visitors were entertained. Gigantic white columns rose in front of the house, and clusters ~f magnolias gurrounded it. The slave houses were located about two hundred yards back of the house.

	‘1~~asga Shepherd an‘ Mistis Georgiana was both good an‘ treated

~e servants ~ ‚ “ Emma said. “I ‚ members dat I used. to keep de flies of±‘en~4stis Georgiana wid a big fan, an~ ‚nce I went to sleep. She jest laugh when she foun‘ me sleepin‘ dar beside her.

	“Iiassa would only whup a slave fer two thIngs,“ she recalled.“ ti~inp,~ was if things warn‘t done up jes‘ right at hog kilhin‘ time, ‚~ ~e other was iffen a nigger warn‘t clean when he ‘ported for work ~-onday mornin‘s. 0V Massa didn‘t do de whuppin‘s hisse‘f. Jake did

~t, but ~assa sat dar on his horseto see dat only a certain number of ~ic~zs vras cive ~

	“How did we feel ‘bout a white man who would be over-looker? We ~.l1eci i~jrn ~ po whit e trash. ‚ ~1~e ‘ t thought much of by anybody..“

	Emma said that every one went to church on ~und~ayS and that she j~ikec1. to sing the old religious hynths. When freedom came all the Shep— servants had been taught to read and write, she said, and. each

1::uly had. enough money to buy a little home. “De ~ would make ~‘Cj1 fa~a11y keep pigs, hens and such; the~he would market the products

	Place the money aside for them, Emma explained.