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... slaves . These courageous girls risked jail sentences to secrete and send on to Canada slaves who had come from the South by boat to Fall River or New Bedford . Oftentimes it was necessary to hide a slave in the cellar at Valley Falls ...
... slaves . These courageous girls risked jail sentences to secrete and send on to Canada slaves who had come from the South by boat to Fall River or New Bedford . Oftentimes it was necessary to hide a slave in the cellar at Valley Falls ...
Page 9
... slaves from New York , slavery having been abolished in Rhode Island in 1784. At one time a whole family of fugitive slaves came to his farm and he settled them there and took them into his employ . Rhode Island law at that time ...
... slaves from New York , slavery having been abolished in Rhode Island in 1784. At one time a whole family of fugitive slaves came to his farm and he settled them there and took them into his employ . Rhode Island law at that time ...
Page 149
... slave . " The slaves , although kept in the lowest ignorance in which it is possible to keep them , are , nevertheless , far more intelligent than they are usually represented , or than they ever appear to white people . The few ...
... slave . " The slaves , although kept in the lowest ignorance in which it is possible to keep them , are , nevertheless , far more intelligent than they are usually represented , or than they ever appear to white people . The few ...
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