Well, it was black, so I'm hoping that means it wasn't a recluse. Unfortunately I don't know enough about spider identification to know if there are non-brown types of recluses. It was fairly large, though not huge.
Not sure what it might've been then.
Crush to be on the safe side.
Had a Minnow Spider the size of my hand try to run up my pantleg once.
They look something like huge wolf spiders or grass spiders.
I stomped the snot outta him until he was flatter'n a pancake.