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Ex-Slave Entertains.After planning tbe event 48 years, Gilbert Porter, seventy, gave a barbecueoil Sunday in Kegler.s grove, near that city in celebration of bis release from -bondage;—He—was—Qresnfessee—negro-slave freed by Lincoln.From tbe day be left bis former master’s plantation Porter- baB -planned- -to entertain bia friends at a southern feast in commemoration of bis liberation.--Tbe time arrived this year—the filf-tietb since the opening q£ tbe civil war. Hundreds of respected citizens accepted Porters invitation, munching thick slice of bread tbat held hot pieces of juicy * roast beef carved from a steer sizzling- on tbe stones in a deep pit. There was plenty of roast pig and chicken, tgo.Porter told bow when a boy he was compelled to work 16 hours'a day. Onoe be received 700 lashes because he 'ran away to see blB girl.For years Porter ran a peanut stand and then bought a farm east of tbe city.
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The Dalton Gazette
Dalton, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 21, 1911
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