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This wedded pair had children—just how many I never knew, but several, I was often told by them were probably living, tom from them in their infancy and carried t parts unknown and sold to other masters. Wonder not that they intensely hated slavery and believed liberty a ble«?lng. Nor wonder lhat Aunt Kitty, as if inspired from above, should declare as she did positively when the war of the rebellion first broke out that its end would be the death of slavery. She lived to see 1her prophecy fulfilled: In January 180?.Abraham made the proclamation of universal emancipation of all the en slaved in our country, and in September after, amid the glad amens and rejoicings of millions that American slavery was dead, she passed on to the home of the eternally blessed in Heaven. i
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Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 15, 1887
Page 5
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