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lostnfound

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3. This may seem forever ago, but I briefly had the services of a maid...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 08:20 PM

Feb 2018

Who did light housekeeping in expensive apartments in Chicago, even though she was probably 65 already. She told me she’d grown up in the south and that her own mother or father was born to a parent who had been freed from slavery. So her grandparent had been a slave.

My own grandmother was born in 1861, though neither a slave nor a slaveowner.

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Charles Ball describing being taken from his mother forever. [View all] NNadir Feb 2018 OP

Dear god this is so horrible MaryMagdaline Feb 2018 #1

White or black, if you claim to be human, READ THIS! nt Atticus Feb 2018 #2

This may seem forever ago, but I briefly had the services of a maid... lostnfound Feb 2018 #3

In the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #4

You know, I never actually read that book, but it might be interesting to do so. NNadir Mar 2018 #5

Please give it a try. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #6