526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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The Life and Times of a Freeborn Gal
"i was born down there when i was a gal," said the old woman. "I married a mr. ladder man named sam taylor and he swore that when he was twenty one he would come back and to help me run away or else save up the money to buy my freedom" The wall broke out and after it was over she went back to the old home but sam wasn't there, nor could she farm nothing about him. She has been looking for him ever since she hadn't simply as though 20 five years were about a couple of weeks. He's been hurting for me all these years lesson he's been sick or something so he couldn't work or were out
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