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Ex-.Slave: 2Milton Marshall
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	‘~Some o±~ de slaves was whipped while dey was tied to a stock. My marster was all right, but awful strict about two thiri~s, stealing arid te1lin~ a lie, He sho‘ cvhipped dem. if dey was caught i~ri dem thit~s. Some marsters didn‘t feed de slaves much, but my marster always had enough. E~very Sunday he vvould give each nigger a quart of flour extra ±~or brea~ast.

	tWe had to work all ~iay Saturdays, but Marse ~ou1dn‘t let anybody work on Sunday. Sometimes he v~ould give de women part o~ Saturday afternoons so dey coula wash. He wouldri‘t allow fishing arid hunting on Sundays either, unless it looked like rain arid de Lodder in de field h~d to be brought in.~ He always give us Christ-. mas Day of:~, arid v~e had lots 6± good eats den.

	“I remember de old corn-.shuckings,~ cotton-.~~ickings and log-.rollings. He would ask all de neighbors‘ hands in anö dey would come by w. I can remember dem . I remember de grain was put in drains arid de horses was ni9~de to tramp on it to git de seed out. Den it was put in a house and poured in a big wooden fan machine Which fanned out de chaff. De machine was ‘turned by two men. D~Y made molasses by taking de cane and squeezing out de juiàe in a big woo‘en machine. De machines now is different. Dey

is made ~of cast.	~ .: -
:	~ ‘to41 stap~e dat was drawn by two horses went past our placê.

It carried mail arid people. When Marse wanted to send word. to any

. -	people in de neighborhood he sent it by somebody on a horse.

—	“Many of de slaves,, arid some old white people, too, thought

~ dar was witches in dem days. Dey believed a witch could ride you T and stop blood circulation.

~	“Dar was many ~~og8 on de farms, mostly hounds and bird dogs.