Source 3: Excerpts from Interviews Elderly African Americans Tll tell you what was done in slave time. They'd sing and pray. The white folks would take you to the creek and baptize you like anybody else. Sometimes the slaves would be off
and have prayer meetings of their own--nothing but colored people there. The grown folks didn't have much amusement in slavery times. They had banjo, fiddle, melodioan,
and things like that. They could dance all the wanted to their way. They would give com huskins, they would go and shuck com and shuck so much. Get through shucking.
they would give you dinner. Sometimes big rich white people would give dances out in the yard and (we would) look at their way of dancing, and doing Violin players would be
colored."
- Discovery Education
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1. What did you see in the primary source quotes that surprised you about slave life
and culture? and why?