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Project Gutenberg's The Story of Mattie J. Jackson, by L. S. Thompson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF MATTIE J. JACKSON *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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
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