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by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
As the Civil War rages, a young woman living the North is unaware of her African ancestry until she returns to the South and is immediately enslaved.
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Mystery of Market Speech and Prayer-Meeting
“Good mornin’, Bob; how’s butter dis mornin’?”
“Fresh; just as fresh, as fresh can be.”
“Oh, glory!” said the questioner, whom we shall call Thomas Anderson, although he was known among his acquaintances as Marster Anderson’s Tom.
His informant regarding the condition of the market was Robert Johnson, who had been separated from his mother in his childhood and reared by his mistress as a favorite slave. She had fondled him as a pet animal, and even taught him to read. Notwithstanding their relation as mistress and slave, they had strong personal likings for each other.
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