nd. Sunday Schools were often conducted for the slaves on the
plantation.

Among the ordinances passed by the City of Augusta, February 7, 1862,
was section forty-seven, which concerned negro preaching and teaching:

"No slave or free person of color shall be allowed to preach,
exhort or teach, in any meeting of slaves or free persons of
color, for public worship or religious instruction in this
city, but except at funerals or sitting up with the dead,
without a license in writing from the Inferior Court of
Richmond County, and Mayor of the City, regularly granted
under the Act of the General Assembly of this State, passed
on the 23rd day of December, 1843.

"No colored preacher residing out of the County of Richmond,
shall preach, exhort, or teach, until he has produced his
license granted under the Act aforesaid, and had the same
countersigned by the Mayor of this City, or in his absence
by two members of Council.

"Persons qualified as aforesaid, may hold meetings in this city
for the purpose aforesaid, at any time during the Sabbath day,
and on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. No other meetings
of slaves or free persons of color for religious purposes shall
be held, except by permission of Council.

"No meeting of slaves or free persons of color for the purpose
aforesaid, shall continue at any time later than 10:30 at
night, and all such meetings shall be superintended by one or
more citizens, appointed by the ministers in charge of their
respective denominations, and approved by the Mayor. All slaves
or free persons of color attending such meetings, after that
hour, shall be arrested, and punished, under the Section,
whether with or without tickets from their owners; and all such
persons returning from such meetings after the ringing of the
Market Bell, without tickets, shall be arrested and punished
as in other cases.

"Every offense against this section shall be punished by
whipping, not exceeding 39 lashes, or fined not exceeding
$50.00."

Harriet White, who told us some of her father's slavery experiences
said, "Yas'm, dey let'em go to chu'ch, but de colored folks hadder sit
behind a boarded up place, so dey hadder stretch dey neck to see de
preacher, and den day hadder jine de Master's chu'ch--de Methodis'
Chu'ch. De spirit done tole my f