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	“M~inns~ went down to the boat. A man on the boat told Manuna not to answer the door for anybody, until he gave her the signal . The man was a Quaker, one of those people who says ‘Thee‘ and ‘Thou‘ . Mar~r kept on oallixig

out the mietreas‘s name and Meimna couldn‘t keep her still.

	“When the boat docked, the man told Mamma be thought hermaster was abouta Ee told Maiim~ to put a veil over her face, In case the master was eœ~ing. He told Mamma he would out the master ‚ s heart out and give it to her, before he would ever let her be taken.

	“She left the boat before reaching Canada,~ s~ae~here on the Uxulerground Railroad - Detroit, I think — and a wc~uan who took her in saidz 1Cc~ne in, my

child, you‘ re safe now. ~ Then Mamna met my father in WindBor • I think they were taken to Canada fre3.

“I don‘t remember anything about grandparents at all.

	“Father ws~ a cook.

“Mother‘s XIIiStI‘eBB was always good and kind to her.

	“When I was born, mother ‚ e master said he was worth three hundred dollars

more. - I don‘t know if he ever would bave sold me.

	nI think our hcine was on the plantation. We lived in a babin and there

must haire been at least six ci‘ eig~it cabins.

	.	‘~Unole Simon, who boarded with me in later years, was a kind of overseer. Whenever he told his master the slaves did scmethin~ wrong, the slaves were whipped, and Uncle Simon was whipped, too. I asked him why he should be whipped, he hadn‘t done anything wrong. But Uncle Simon said he guessed he needed it any-

way.

~	~ UI think there was a jail on the plantation, because Mamma said if the

slaves weren‘t in at a certain hour at night, the watchman would lock them up