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    Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
    Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
    Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
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    Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman - Old Elizabeth

      Project Gutenberg's Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman, by Anonymous

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      Title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17826]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIR OF OLD ELIZABETH, A ***

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      MEMOIR

      OF

      OLD ELIZABETH,

      A

      COLOURED WOMAN.

      There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

      Gal. iii. 25.

      PHILADELPHIA:

      COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.

      1863.

      MEMOIR, &C.

      In the following Narrative of Old Elizabeth, which was taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year, her simple language has been adhered to as strictly as was consistent with perspicuity and propriety.

      I was born in Maryland in the year 1766. My parents were slaves. Both my father and mother were religious people, and belonged to the Methodist Society. It was my father's practice to read in the Bible aloud to his children every sabbath morning. At these seasons, when I was but five years old, I often felt the overshadowing of the Lord's Spirit, without at all understanding what it meant; and these incomes and influences continued to attend me until I was eleven years old, particularly when I was alone, by which I was preserved from doing anything that I thought was wrong.

      In the eleventh year of my age, my master sent me to another farm, several miles from my parents, brothers, and sisters, which was a great trouble to me. At last I grew so lonely and sad I thought I should die, if I did not see my mother. I asked the overseer if I might go, but being positively denied, I concluded to go without his knowledge. When

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