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the boat, put in a cabin and kept there until we got to ~ouisvi11e, Kentucky, where I was taken off.

	“After I arrived in Louisville I was taken to a farm near Frarikfort and installed there virturally a slave until 1864, when I escaped through the kindness of a delightful Episcopalian woman from C Inc innat~i ‚ Ohio • As I could not speak English, my chores were to act as a tutor and companion for the children of Pierce Buekran :aaynes, a well known slave trader and plantation oWner in Kentucky. Haynes wanted his children to s~peak French and it was. my duty to teach theni. I was the private companion of 3 girls and one small boy, each day I had to talk French and write French for them. They became very proficient in French and I in the
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rudiment s of the English language .
n ~ slept in the children ‚ s quarters with the Hayne s‘

children, ate and played with them. I had all the privileges of the household accorded me with the exception of one, I never was taken off nor permitted to leave the plantation. While onthe plantation I wore good clothes, siniilar.to those of the white children. Hayne s wa s 8. inerc ile s s brutal tyrant with hi s s Ia ye s ‚ punishing them severly and cruelly, both by the lash and in the jail on the
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	~	tiThe name of the plantation where I was held as a slave was called Beatrice Manor, after the wife of Haynes.. Itcontained 8000 acre~,. of which more than 6000 acres were~ under cultivation, and having about 350 colored slaves and 5 or 6 overseers all ~of whoiu were white . The overseers were the overlords of the ina~or; as flaynes dealt extensively in tobacco and trading in slaves, he was away from the plantation nearly all the time • There was 1cc at~