The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale, with Northern Comments (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale, With Northern Comments

Mammy is a common appellation for a slave-nurse. The Mammy to whom the message in the letter is sent was nursery-maid when the writer of the letter and sev eral brothers and sisters were young; and, more than this, she was maid to their mother in early years. She is still in this gentleman's family. Her name is Cygnet Kate's babe was named for her.

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