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Show Appendix. The following testimonial is from a man who IS now a highly respectable colored citizen of Boston. L. 1\1. c. "Tlus narrative contains some incidents so extraordinary, that, doubtless, many persons, under whose eyes it may chance to fall, will be ready to belieye that it is colored highly, to serve a special purpose. But, however it may be regarded by the incredulous, I know that it is full of living truths. I have been well acquainted with the author f1·om my boyhood. The circumstances recounted in her history are perfectly familiar to me. I knew of her treatment from her master; of the imprisonment of her children; of their ale and redemption ; of her seven years' concealment ; and of her subsequent escape to the North. I am now a resident of Boston, and am a living witness to the truth of this interesting narrative. GEORGE W. LOWTIIER." |