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Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 7

An alluring 51iclu.ro of slavery day# on « largo Georgia, plantation is drawn in ‘Memoirs of a Southerner,' by ixiward J. Thomas, Mho industrious slave on this plantation seldom worked after tho noon hour, it is aliinued, for by that time bis field world with boo or plough would bo done. The slaves could raise chickens for their own use. each family had a garden, and many had boats of i heir own for getting fish and oysters. "Tho marches abounded in. racoons and the woods in possums, and) nightly the baying of the, dogs—their own—would" (ell you the boys of tho plantation! were on a hunt. Diamond-backed terrapin were abundant., and one was never brought to our dwelling for which the bearer could not g>d in exchange a ‘thrip’ (the oldfashioned six writs), or, if he preferred, a ration of bacon or syrup. Sundays no work was permitted. At church tho slaves were, welcome, and on Communion Sundays they all, mmder and slave, took wine from the same silver cup—the white folks, of course, first. . . . I remember the pleasant rivalry between Hie negro men and women to see who would pick the most cotton, and hence pet the prize—a calico dress, or a hat,, or a pair of Sunday shoes—that father would oltor weekly to the one who picked the most cotton. Tho picking season then was very long, the oohton would not open until October, and the fieldswcu!4 be while until after Chrintnlßl. ,,