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"Aunt Easter" is from Burke County. Her recollections are not quite so appalling as Matilda's, but they are nothappy memories."Dey didn' learn me nothin' but to churn and clean up house. 'Tend day boy, churn dat milk, spin and cyard dat roll."
Asked if the slaves were required to go to Church, Easter shook her head."Too tired. Sometime we even had to pull fodder on Sunday. Sometime we go to church, but all dey talk about wasobeyin' Massa and obeyin' Missus. Befo' we went to church, we had to git up early and wash and iron our clo'es.
Easter's brother was born the day Lee surrendered. "Dey name him Richmond," she said."
