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Showing How the Southerner Loves *'the Old Southern Negro.I was horn on a plantation in Mississippi. My family were glava-hold-ers. L was tha fim grandson of ray generation. After the manner oi the times, my first present from ny paternal grandfather was a voman to take care of me, to he my own, inJi-vidual property. Her name was Lu-clndy—“Cindy.” Her husband wa* Torn, my father's body servant The war came. My father entered the confederate army. He took -Tom with him to Virginia. When his regimenv, the 12tli Mississippi, left the state, not a white man remained on the plantation. There were over 500 slaves, mygrandmother, my mother and an aunt. I was an infant.In die battle of Spottsylvaniu court-
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Marshfield Times
Marshfield, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 15, 1903
Page 10
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Shelly L.
VA, USA 08 Mar 2020
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