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Updated: May 3, 2025
Three or four children, the eldest a girl of twelve, were about the door of one of them. I approached and asked for a drink of water. The girl got a glass and showed me to the spring near by. "We's grandmover's daughter's chilern," she said, in reply to my inquiry. Their mother worked in Washington for "eighteen cents a month," and their grandmother took care of them.
A woman came floundering along the trail at the edge of the cornfield. "It's Miss Thompson. Ah wants Miss Gray." "She seems excited," observed Emma. "What is it, Mrs. Thompson?" called Grace, stepping out to meet the mountaineer's wife. "The chilern has took a frenzy, an' Ah don't know what t' do," cried the woman, wringing her hands.
I have borne five chilern and seen 'em mos' all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard and a'n't I a woman?... Dey talks 'bout dis ting in de head what dis dey call it?" "Intellect," said some one near. "Dat's it, honey. What's dat got to do with women's rights or niggers' rights?
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