Our Nig; Or, Sketches From The Life Of A Free Black
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Preface
_ OUR NIG;
or,
Sketches from the
Life of a Free Black,
In A Two-Story White House, North.
SHOWING THAT SLAVERY‘S SHADOWS
FALL EVEN THERE.
Dedicated to
Pauline Augusta Coleman Gates
and
Henry Louis Gates, Sr.
In Memory
of
Marguerite Elizabeth Howard Coleman,
and
Gertrude Helen Redman Gates
"I know
That care has iron crowns for many brows;
That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon
Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears
Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks
At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry;
That gentle spirits on the rack of pain
Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns;
That hell‘s temptations, clad in heavenly guise
And armed with might, lie evermore in wait
Along life‘s path, giving assault to all."--HOLLAND.
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PREFACE.
IN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for
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