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MEMOIR
OF
OLD ELIZABETH,
A
COLOURED WOMAN.
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"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.
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