Pace 2. I~4
	Jhitley,	M. B. Ross.
1-22‘-37



suspended from a hook which was fastened on a rack in the stick and dirt tjiirnney.

	Each ftxuily w&s givsn a spinning wheel and loan, Aster the day‘s

work each slave home was the scene of spinning anc‘~ weaving cloth for the oc~

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cupants clothes and bedding.

	The taster gave each slave a pair of shoes; .Benjamintreceived his

first pair of shoe$ when he was five years old< All 3lavos ~ barefoot in

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summer ~:4;~i~r4e!‘s s

	Sur.i~er on the Henderson plantations never varied frcvi bacon and
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corn brea~~ i~i ~	each farniiy was free to eat &s many of the ~if~

ferent vegetabl3s, as they wanted.

	Wooden spoons~bowl~s, and trays, were kept clean by scouring regularly with san~jAt Christmas/ those who asked for whiske~~given an ample
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amo~t; -.~o~n:thn~ each fc~ily was given a cake baked by Lr, Henderson‘s

~~other.

	The master of the Henderson PlafltatiO5aS well as other‘ plantation o;‘rner/s~~ allowed the~ slav ; s t o work mdlvi dual cotton patches ; when the cotton ~‘~as picked he paid them their price for the aniount they ha~ raised. Slaves often ecsne‘~ money~)too, b:r splitting rails at night an~ selling them to different plantation owners.

	~Jthou~h i~r. ~am Henderson was a kin~d master and hardly ever punished his slaves, there were some masters who were lmown for their cruelty~

~	in particular was an ol~ man by tbe name of Shirley,,‘ 40 would pick up anything from a stick to a brush broony to punish hi~ s1av~s.

	Benjcrnin~ heard from his elders that sc~e masters constructed stocks like those of old, and sometimes slaves were whippec~ while fastened in the stocks. One slave owiier named G-a,r keptwristbands of iron, and also b gast‘ made to fit into the mouth,, and fa3ten~« around the neck, which prevented