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My story begins when I was 12. Years old. My father and I were born into slavery. A family in Georgia owned us. We lived on a big farm and the family pertained two adults, and two kids. There were at least 7 of us slaves. My father and I worked out in the fie ....

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.... that if we got caught, that the white people would punish us. I never learned to read or write. My dad said that if the white people knew I could read and write that they would end up selling you. And I didn’t want that. I never had known my mother. Father said that she died in the course of having me. I felt sad because I felt it was my fault she died. Father said it was nobody’s fault and that he’s very happy I was born. And that he’s happy I am his daughter. Dad said she was beautiful and kind. He has no pictures of her because he was never allowed to have a camera. She worked on the farm with dad and she got pregnant. The whit ....