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	“There was a colored man there that they were keeping too. One Sunday, they were taking him to church and leaving my mother behind. She said to them, ‘Well, I will be gone when you come back, so you better leave Bill here this morning. ‚ Her old mistress said to her, ‘Yes; and we‘ll come after you arid whip you every step of the way back. ‚ But she went while they were at church and they did not catch her either.
	tiThe Saturday before that she made me a dress out of the

tail of an old bonnet and a big red handkerchief. I~ade waist, sleeves and all out of that old bonnet and handkerchief. She left right after they left for church, and she dressed me up in my new dress. She put the dress on me an. went down the road. She didn‘t know which way to go. She didntt know the way nor which direction to take, She walked and she walked and she walked. Then she would step aside and listen and ask the way.

	“It was near night when she found a place to stay. The people out in the yard saw her pass and called to ber. It was the younge s t daughter of 1~Irs . Kelly, the one she had overheard telling her mother she ought to set her free and pay her. She stayed with John Kelly‘s daughter two or three days. I don‘t know what her name was, only she was a Kelly. Then she got out among the colored people and got to working and got some clothes for herself and me, From then on, she worked and taken care of me.

	“From there she went to Pocahontas and worked and 8tayed there till I was about fifteen years old. Meanwhile, she married in Pocahontas. Then she moved to Newport. Then I was fifteen, I married in Newport. My mother supported herself by cooking and