Note 79 — Chapter XLIX · Plantation Negroes—Incidents and Characteristics.

When a dead person is interred, they call it simply the “buryin’.” After thirty or forty deaths, they have a big meeting and a funeral for the whole of them; thus distributing funeral honors, as the overseer said the preacher did his salvation, “by hullsale.” At this time the water was nearly over their burying ground, which was outside the levee.