Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman by Anonymous
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Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman, by Anonymous
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Title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17826]
Language: English
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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.
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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