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Everybody will remember ibe story of the |wt*jr slave rauiher in “Ut*cle Tom's Cabin/1 who craped trom her pur.-ncrs by erasing the Ohio on fioal-in£C itse ; bi'i possibly everybody is not I aware tlaf. Mr. Sijwe only wove a real incident into the thread of her story. In the ‘‘Reminiscences ot Levi Cotlm/* jnsL published, he gives the , hd!«\vii g version of* tins thril log incident, as tohl him by the woman herself.She said she was a slave from Iveu-tuckey, the property of a man who lived a few mi lee* back from the Ohio river, beh.w Ripley, Ohio. Her master and mistrewi were kind to her. and she had a comfortable home, but her master gut into some pecuniary difficulty, and she found that *lie and her only child were to lie Fojmrated. She ; had buried two children, and wnn doubly attached to the one- *ue had 'eft, a bright promising child, over two yeare old. When she found itwa** to he trben from her she was filled ,wi( ' grief and dtstnav, and resolved t*»►make her cca|*e that night, if pnswhle. She watched Iter opportunity, and when darkness had settled down and al the family had retired to sleep, she started with her child in her arms, and walked straight toward the Ohio liver. She knew tha il was frozen ovar at that season ot the year, and hojed to crosswithout difficulty on the tee, hut when« •*she reached its banks at daylight she found ilii the ice had broken up, and was slowly drifting in large cakes. She hoped to find seme way to cr«i*s the river the next night, but there seemed little | rospect of any one lieing able tn cross the river in safety* for during the d:\v the ice became more broken and dangerous t* cross. In the evening she dheuvered pursuers nearing the ho use, and with desperate courage she determined to cross the nver or j»eiis!i in ti e attempt, ( lamping her j child in her arm'*, she darted out of tin Idot.i md ran toward the river, ft I lowed. hy her pursuers, who had just di;n« unfed from their horses when ■! y r night sight of her. Xt fear or
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Albany Register
Albany, Oregon, US
Fri, Nov 24, 1876
Page 4
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