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Show 266 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. tho fashionable world. Thirty or forty nnr. os wero there, of a great variety of nations. Sorno of Lhc ladjes had colored ·waiLing-maids and. coaclnncn, 1J u t I was the only nurse tinged with the blood. of .Africa. \Vhen the tea bell rang, l took little ~Iary and follow·cu Lhe other nurses. Supper \ras served in a long hall. A young n1an, who had the onlcring of things, took tho circuit of the taLle t-wo or three i imcs, and finally pointed 1110 to a scat at the lo·wcr on<l of it. As there was Lut one chair, I sat do·wn and took tho child in my lap. \Vhcreupon the young 1na.n caine to 1no and said, in the blanclc t 1nanncr po~ ilJlc, " \Viii you plcaso to scat the little girl in the chair, an<l ·tand behind it anu feed her ? .AJtcr they ha vo dono, you ~vill be shown to the kitchen, ·where you \Vill have a good supper." Thi \vas the clin1ax ! I founcl it hard to prcscrYc my self-control, when I looked rounu, and sa\v won1cn who ·were nurses, as I \vas, and only one . hade lighter in co1nplcxion, eyeing 1110 with a defiant look, as if 1ny presence were a contan1ination. Ilo\vcvor, I saiJ nothing. I quietly took tho child. in n1y aru1s, went Lo our roon1, and refused to go to tho table again. :.\fr. Bruce ordered meals to be sent to tho roo1n for lj tLlc ~fury and I. This answered for a few· <lays; hut the waiters of t he establishment ·were ·white, and they soon began to con1plain, saying they ·were not hired to \Yait on negroes. The landlord roqnc. tcc11fr. Bruce to send me do\vu to my 1ncals, because his servants r eb llcd against Lringing thc1n up, and the colored servants of other boarders were dissatisfied because all ·were not treated alike. My answer "\Vas that the colored servants ought to be I r } [ [ Prejudice AgainO: Co1or. dissatisfwd with tlle?J~selvcs, for not having too much self-rc poet to sulnnit to .'neh trca.LmcnL; that there "·as no difference in the price of board for colored ancl white ser,Tant:, and there \vas no justification for differe11Cc · of trcabncnt. I staid a 1nonLh after this, ancl fuH1iug 1 was resolved to stand up for n1y rjgl1ts, they concluded to treat 1nc \voll. Let every colored tnan an(l wou1an do this, ancl oven t ually \VC • ·hall cease to be trallllJlecl under foot by our oppressor:;. • |