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Title: The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
Her Parentage--Experience of Eighteen years in
Slavery--Incidents during the War--Her Escape from Slavery

Author: L. S. Thompson

Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17827]

Language: English

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THE STORY

OF

MATTIE J. JACKSON;

HER PARENTAGE--EXPERIENCE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS IN SLAVERY--INCIDENTS
DURING THE WAR--HER ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY.

A TRUE STORY.

WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY

DR. L. S. THOMPSON,

(FORMERLY MRS. SCHUYLER,)

AS GIVEN BY MATTIE.

LAWRENCE:
PRINTED AT SENTINEL OFFICE, 123 ESSEX STREET.
1866.

PREFACE

The object in publishing this book is to gain sympathy from the
earnest friends of those who have been bound down by a dominant race
in circumstances over which they had no control--a butt of ridicule
and a mark of oppression; over whom weary ages of degradation have
passed. As the links have been broken and the shackles fallen from
them through the unwearied efforts of our beloved martyr President
Lincoln, as one I feel it a duty to improve the mind, and have ever
had a thirst for education to fill that vacuum for which the soul has
ever yearned since my earliest remembrance.

Thus I ask you to buy my little book to aid me in obtaining an
education, that I may be enabled to do some good in behalf of the
elevation of my emancipated brothers and sisters. I have now arrived
at the age of twenty. As the first dawn of morning has passed, and the
meridian of life is approaching, I know of no other way to speedily
gain my object than through the aid and patronage