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	 (Texas)


SILVIA KI1~Q, French Ne~ress of ~nr11n, Texas, does n~ know heer ate, but says that she was born in Morocco. She was stèlen frcxa lier laisband and three children, brx~ght to the United States and sold. into slavery. Silvia h~s the appearance of extreme ace, and may be close to a hundred years old, as she thlnks,she is, because of her memories of the chud.ren she never saw again and. of the slave ship.





	“I know I was borned in Morocco, in Africa, and was married and had three chilien befo‘ I was stoled from my husband. I dontt know who it was stole me, but dey took me to France, to a place called Bordeaux, and. dii~s me with some coffee, and when I knows anything ‘bout it, 1s in de bottom of a boat with a whole lot of other niggers. It seem like we was in dat boat forever, but we comes to land, and I‘s put on de block and sold. I finds out afterwards from my white folks it was in New Orleans where dat bi ock was ‚ but I didn ‚ t know it den.

	~e was all chained and dey stripe all our clothes off and de folks what gwtne buy us comes round and feels us all ove~r. If~n i~ny de nig-~

sers don‘t want to take dere clothes off, de man gits a lone, black whip and e.tts dem up hard. I‘s sold to a planter what had a big plantation in Payette County, right here in Texas, don‘t know no nazni~ ‘cept Marse Jones, .

	«Marie Jones, he am awful good, but de overseer was de meanest man I ever knowed, a white man name Smith, what boasts ‘bO~It how mang fligßers he done kilt. When Marse Jones seed me on de block, he say, ‘Datte a



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