"They had barbecues. That's where the barbecues started from, I reckon,
from the barbecues among the slaves.
"They would have corn shuckings. They would have a whole lot of corn to
shuck, and they would give the corn shucking and the barbecue together.
They would shuck as many as three or four hundred bushels of corn in a
night. Sometimes, they would race one another. So you know that they
must have been some shucking done.
"I don't believe that I know of anything else. People were ignorant in
those days and didn't have many amusements."