Raynor HCA 2013-01
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A complete and authentic issue of the New York Weekly Tribune, September 8, 1860, 8pp., untrimmed, VG. From the interior a full column article “Story Of A Fugitive Slave Woman.” The correspondent relates the woman’s own words. In small part, “I was born on a plantation in Virginia and have been used to field and house labor ... on the plantation there was an abundance of vegtables but these were fed to the four-legged stock in preference to slaves. ... He said to me ‘Are you free or slave?’ I did not know what he meant. .. Afterward I Married. My husband knew about being free, and we often talked about getting away. Finally we learned what steps to take ... At last my husband told me the only chance for me to escape safely was to go boxed up as freight .. I consented. ... I was placed half sitting in a box just wide enough to hold my body with my feet braced against the bottom ... The box was properly directed ‘This side up.’ ... ‘We take no freight until 5 o’clock.’ The box was taken out and turned upside down .. here I stood on my head in the hot boiling sun. The heat and sense of stifling was horrible. ..the hour came to place the freight in the car. ... I was twenty-six hours in the box ... From my new home there I caused this letter to be written to my master: ‘Call in your hounds, the fox is safe in a land of freedom’ ...”
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