trouacut lady
Do Though neglected and a slave, I had a desire for
Where there is a
will there is a way
was not brought up by anybody. No one seemed
to care for me tull I was able to work. No one
ever spoke of my father or mother, but I learned
that a curse was attached to my race, that my
& African blood would forever exclude me from the
higher walls of life. This seemed hard to bear,
because my completion was aloost white.
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knowledge. Without books and teachers and
10 schools I determined to learn. I was aware that my
master never permitted his slaves to be taught.
Slaves were slaves to him. He regarded them not as
men and women, but in the same light as horses or
other domestic animals. He sapplied their
15 necessities of food and clothing, but discounted
the ideas of equality and fraternity as absurd. But
"where there's a will there's a way."
As I was employed about the house, my labors
were much easier than those of the field servants,
20 and I enjoyed intervals of rest. Then, too, I was a
child and some hours of each day were allotted to
play. While the other children of the house were
amusing themselves, I would quietly leave their
company to look at some old book or newspaper,
25 hoping that some day I would understand them...
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