Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

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colored families aided her.  Laid out in the woods till wheat harvest.  Then came to Del. and staid till first Nov.  “My Savior protected me and I trusted in him.  I did not even get frosted.”  Often suffered for want of food and clothing, and often flogged.  A brave earnest woman.  (Came with Harriet Tubman.)  Went to Canada.  Sent her to Troy, needed no money.

 

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