As for marriage, the possibility of such a thing never crossed her mind; there was not a man in the parish who did not offend her sense of propriety and shock her taste, whenever she met one; and though her warm, kind heart made her a blessing to the poor and sick, her mother was yet bitterly regretted at quiltings and tea-drinkings, where she had been so "sociable-like.

" FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: S.S. Taylor Subject: Slave memoriesBirth, Mother, Father, Separation House Subject: SlavesDwellings, Food, Clothes Subject: Corn Shucking, Dances, Quiltings, Weddings among Slaves Subject: SlavesFight with Master (junior); Slave uprisings Subject: Confederate Army Negroes; Ex-slave Occupations Story:Information [TR: Topics moved from subsequent pages.

Social AffairsCorn Shuckings, Quiltings and Dances The biggest time I remember on the plantations was corn shucking time.

Quiltings I heard mother say she went to a lot of quiltings.

Quiltings I heard mother say she went to a lot of quiltings.

"I know not what huskings and quiltings maybe; But Grandma' will tell; and perhaps let us see Some things she has long laid away: That stiff damask gown, with its sharp-pointed waist, The hoop, the craped, cushion, and buckles of paste, Which they wore in her grandparent's day.

Amusements "They had quiltings and corn shuckings.

"Folks would give quiltings.

Log-rollings, house-raisings, house-warmings, corn-shuckings, quiltings, and the like were occasions when all the neighbors came together to do what the family itself could hardly accomplish alone.

Quiltings furnished the principal amusement, and at these I was in requisition, both for my expertness with the needle, and my skill in laying out work; but as I had no brother to come for me, I usually went home before the evening frolic, which consisted of plays.