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Well, me and Miss Phillis used to dress up hansum for dinner to set good sample to niggars, and two ob de coloured waiters tended on us. "So one day, said Miss Phillis to me: 'What shall I ab de honor to help yaw to, Mr Sorrow? "'Aunt Phillis, sais I, 'skuse me one minit, I ab made a grand 'skivery. "'What is dat, uncle, sais she, 'you is so clebber! I clare you is wort your weight in gold.
"Now, Massa, try dat 'skivery; you will be able to eat tree times as much as you do now. Arter dat invention, I used to enjoy my sleep grand. I went into de hottest place in de sun, laid up my face to him, and sleep like a cedar stump, but den I allus put my veil on." "To keep the flies off?" said I.
The great subject before the country at this time was skivery. It had been the cause of trouble for many years. In the early settlement of the American colonies, slavery had been introduced through the influence of the English government. The first slaves had been brought to Virginia nearly 240 years before the time of which I am telling you.
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