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Our nig

CHAPTER XII
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She passed into the various towns of the State she lived in, then into Massachusetts.

Strange were some of her adventures.

Watched by kidnappers, maltreated by professed abolitionists, who didn't want slaves at the South, nor niggers in their own houses, North.

Faugh! to lodge one; to eat with one; to admit one through the front door; to sit next one; awful! Traps slyly laid by the vicious to ensnare her, she resolutely avoided.
In one of her tours, Providence favored her with a friend who, pitying her cheerless lot, kindly provided her with a valuable recipe, from which she might herself manufacture a useful article for her maintenance.

This proved a more agreeable, and an easier way of sustenance.
And thus, to the present time, may you see her busily employed in preparing her merchandise; then sallying forth to encounter many frowns, but some kind friends and purchasers.


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