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Title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom

Author: Lucy A. Delaney

Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17820]

Language: English

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Struggles for Freedom.

[Illustration: (signed) Yours Truly, Lucy A. Delaney]

FROM THE

DARKNESS COMETH THE LIGHT

OR

STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM.

[Illustration]

ST. LOUIS, MO.
PUBLISHING HOUSE OF J. T. SMITH,
No. 11, Bridge Entrance.

Dedication.

To those who by their valor have made their name immortal, from whom
we are daily learning the lessons of patriotism, in whom we respect
the virtues of charity, patience and friendship as displayed towards
the colored race and to those

"Whose deeds crowd History's pages
And Time's great volume make,"

is this little volume reverently dedicated--

THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.

Preface.

So many of my friends have urged me to give a short sketch of my
varied life that I have consented, and herewith present it for the
consideration of my readers. Those who were with me in the days of
slavery will appreciate these pages, for though they cannot recur with
any happiness to the now "shadowy past, or renew the unrenewable," the
unaccountable longing for the aged to look backward and review the
events of their youth will find an answering chord in this little
book.

Those of you who have never suffered as we have, perhaps may suppose
the case, and therefore accept with interest and sympathy the
passages of life and character here portrayed and the lessons which
should follow from them.

If there is a want of unity or coherence in this work, be charitable
and attribute it to lack of knowledge and experience in literary
acquirements. As this is a world of varied interests and many events,
although we are each but atoms, it must be remembered, that we assi