Memoir Of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
Old Elizabeth
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MEMOIR, &C.
MEMOIR, &C.
In the following Narrative of " Old Elizabeth ," which was taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year, her simple language has been adhered to as strictly as was consistent with perspicuity and propriety. I was born in Maryland in the year 1766. My parents were slaves. Both my father and mother were religious people, and belonged to the Methodist Society. It was my father's practice to read in the Bible aloud to his children every sabbath morning. At these seasons, when I was but five years
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