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late made with goats’ milk, and the fun st bread in the world—or excellent coll'ee, and cakes of half a dozen • kinds, for our breakfast—with Mexican dishes hot with green and rednpepper for dinner, left us nothing to desire.I noticed, one evening, our hostessbusily counting money and making• cl • . - » *; r» *1 calculations, and curiosity led me to‘inquire into the cause. She was* Aabout to buy a girl for a cook, for a debt of % 80,50. I learned then and i afterwards, that a man or woman may bn sold for debt, or a parent | may contract a debt, and pledge his or lier child for its payment ; and if it is not paid at the time, the child is sold. A man so sold, receives, towards payment of his debt, five dollars, and i woman two, per month. If the person sold dors not like bis master, be may procure another topay the debt, and take him; and when such other person oilers to do so, and the slave consents, the first buyer cann't refuse to take bis money. A «drI so sobl laiiv marry; ifI her husband pays the debt, she is free -If i• 1. she remains a slave.\Yc remain* *1 at Santa Rosa until the -btlu when* the Army havingcoijio and marched through the town to the tune of Yankee Doodle, ando taken it over again, we marchedtowards Monrl. va. I left Santa Rosa with some regret, for I had
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Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1847
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