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other plantatioriá near us ~ how to read and write and tiggex‘. Mr. Tabb I tic ed us to know how ~ to- t~ger. But sometime a when he would ser~d for us and we would be a long tiTus comi&~ he would ask us where we had been,~ If we told him we had been leaz‘nin‘ to . read, he would near beat the daylights out of us after gettin‘ so~ihebody to teach.us; I Uzink he did some ot that so that the other owners wouldn‘t say he was epOiUnt }4S ala,..,“

	~	‘He was runny ~LbCUt US marryin‘, too, }!e would let us ~o ~àourtin‘ on the other plantations near anytime we liked, it we were good, and it we Lound somebody we want~ed to marry, ar4 she was onaplantation that b‘lon~ed -to one of his kin folks or a frieM, he would swap a slave so‘that the husband and Wifeeould. be together. Sometimes, when he oouldr~‘t do thie, he would let a ~laYe work all day on his plantation, and~ live with his wife at

ç night on her plantation. $oine of the other owners was always talking about his spoiliri us.“ - - . ~ ~

.	- “He wasn‘~t a Mmmacrat like the rest ot “ent in the county; he b~?lOfl~ed to the ‘know~riothin~ party‘ an~L he~was a real leader in it. He used to always be makin‘ sp~eehes, and sometimes his beat friends wouldn‘t be speaking to him for days at a time,“

	.	“Mr, Tabbwaa always specially good to me, He ueed to let me ßO ail about ~ I ~zess he-had to; oou]4r~‘t ge~t tQO muoh

w~‘k out of nie even when he kept~ me right unl*r his eyes, I

. -	learned fast, too, and t think he kinda liked that. - Re used ~ to call -~3andy Davis, the slave who tau&it me~ ‘the smartest Nt&~er


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