 ... before killing himself to escape slavery. Of this note she writes: . . . Lying beside me now, dear, sympathetic reader, is that note — his last brief words. Before writing this chapter [which is called "The Crisis of Existence — A Dreadful Page...  Autobiography of a Female Slave - Side 390av Martha Griffith Browne - 1857 - 401 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
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...A Dreadful Page in Life"] I read it over. Old, soiled and worn it is ; but by his trembling ringers those blotted and irregular lines were penned ; and...hearsed it away, not to be reopened for another year. Such sentimentality belongs only to slaves existing, or once existing, in the over-drawn and dreary... | |
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