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~%	..Y~1IE KENDRICKS.

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	ronnie Kendricks ‚ the oldest of 7 ohilfi~ren, was born in Sherem, Georgia in 1855. Her parents were Martha and Henry Bell. She says that the first thing she remembers is ~a~~of being whipped by her mother.

	~Tennie Kendricks‘ granà~nother and her ten children lived on this

	- ssxne plantation. : The grandmother bad been brought to Georgia from Virginia:

	“She used to tell me how the slave dealers brought her and a group of other 4~ children along much the same as they would a herd of cattle,“

~ - ftlave“, when they reached a town all of them had to dance through the streets


~\	~tnd act lively so that the chances for selling them would be greater“.

~	~Vhen asked to tell about Mr. Moore, her owner, and his family Tennie Kenciricks stated that although her ma~ster owned and operated a large plantation, he was not considered a wealthy man. He owned only two other slaves besides her immediate family and these were men.

	In Mr. Moores ratnily were his mother, his wife ‚ and six children (:tour boys anc9 two girls) • Thi s 1~amily live d very cOEnfortably in a two storied weather~board house, With the exception of our grandmother who cooked for the owner‘s f~mi1y and slaves, and assisted her mistress with housework all the slaves worked In the fields where they cultivated cotton and the corn, as well as the other produce grown there. Every morning at $unrise they had to get up and go to the fields where they worked until it was too dark to see. At noon each day they were permitted to c~e to the kitchen, located just a short distance in the rear of the master‘s house, where they wex~e served dinner. During the course of the day‘s work the w~nen shared all the men‘s work except plowing. All of them picked cotton when it was time to gather the crops. Sane nights they ~wer recjuired to