Mother's Occupation

"My mother was a great weaver. She would weave cloth for the hands on

the place. Some days she would work around the house and some other days

she'd go out and weave. When they wasn't any weaving or spinning to be

done, she'd go out in the field. The weaving and the spinning was right

in the white folks' house."

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