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worked for the people who engaged the mother with the expectation of payment at some future time_ Mrs. Andersons father was a slave but- as the children followed the state of the mother, she was not treated like a slave_ she was brought up mearly as a child_ was sent to school and taught to read and write_ and always treated well till she became a christian and was baptised; this enraged her mistress so much that she threatened to sell her as far as wind and water would carry her, and said she might rough it as much as she could in the meantime- so she lived in constant dread till the proclemation of year husband was free and I hid her mistress Sin when released her. Three of her $24 a month for the privelage of beefing house faith children were coaxed away frew her to be sent in the country in the plantatoin which her master son worked. with the promise