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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
a white man? Oh, yes, sah, he's a white man, he's not a colored man at all. He knows everytina — more dan I do — he kin read and write, and all dat sort oa thing, you know. I'd a sister and mother in Carolina, ‘bout 130 miles on the cars, as I'm told. I was raised by Mr. Kenog. He's bin dead for years; I wish I was wid him now. Dat was de first man dat raised me. Did you ever know your father and mother? Oh, yes; I knowed dem like a book. Mother died four years afore I came to Columbus — I've bin here two years--four and two is six--isn't it, sah? I assumed the responsibility of answering in the affirmative. Well, she has been dead about dat time. It may not be quite so long, though. Who's Kenog, sir? He was a farmer in Newberg, said the slave. Did your father belong to him? No, sah. Was your father a slave? Yes, sah, and my moder too. Was your mother ever sold? No, sah, my mother neber was sold; she was raised dere and died dere. Ho