iSt. ~Jhen we would look and see how the Blaves on the ‘jibing farm waa fareing, ‘twould

almOst make us ~ied tears. lt made us feel like we was gitting ‘long most fine. Dat ~ • f why we loved ‘spected master ‘course he wae so good to us. ~

	~Cause master was good and kind to ue, some of the other white folks used to call him “nigger lover,“ He didn‘t pay dat no mind though. He was a true Christian man, and I mean he sho ‚ lived up to it • He never did ~ force any of us to go to church, if we didn‘t want to, dat was 1~f~ to us to ‘cide. ~If you wanted to you could, if you didn‘t you didn‘t have to, but he‘d always tell us, you ought to go.

. .	Not only was master good but his whole family was too. When the weather was good we worked in the fields and on other little odd jobs that ~s needed done. We slaves would. eat our breakfast, and go to the fields, dare wont no hurry-scurry. Lots o‘tirnes when we got in the fields the other slaves had been in the field a. long time. IDar was t une s though we had o git o i~ early ‚ too ‚ ‚ pecially if it had been rainy weather and the work had been held up for a day oi~ so. raster didn‘t make us work a

‘tall in bad weather neither when it got real cold. The men might have to git in fire
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wood or su~pin‘ of that sort but no all day work in the cold ~ just little odd jobs.

~e didn‘t even have to work on Sundays not even in-the ~house?. The master and the

pre~her both said dat Was the Lord‘s day and you won‘t epose to work on that day. .
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So we didn‘t. We‘d cook the white folks vit~a1s on Saturday and lots o3times dey •at
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cold ~ vitals on Sundays. Master would sometimes ask the preacher home to dinner. ~You
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plenty welcome to go home with me for dinner, but you‘ll have o eat cold v&~al.s

‘cause there aintno cooking on Sundays at my house~ Lots of times we slaves would

take turns on helping ‘em serve Sunday meals just ‘c~,uae we li~d ~ them so much. We

hated to see Misais fULbÏing ‘round in the kitchen all out ‘a‘her place. We ~didn ‘t

~ have to doit~we~juet did it on our own free will. Master Sometimes gives us a little

~ money for it 1mo, which made it all the bettér. Marter and Mi*DUI was so good to us

~ we didn ‘t m±nd Wörking ~ little on Sünd~s ~ in the hou 8~. Ma8te! had pra~er itib thé •

‘hole family every night, prayed for us slaves too. Any of the slaves that wanted to 4~e him could. Or if they wanted to tray by 4em selves they c~uld. 5unday~ is w~r~
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