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Title: A Slave Girl's Story
Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.

Author: Kate Drumgoold

Release Date: February 27, 2006 [EBook #17871]

Language: English

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A Slave Girl's Story

_Being an Autobiography of_
KATE DRUMGOOLD.

BROOKLYN--NEW YORK.

1898

CHAPTER I

Once a slave girl, I have endeavored to fill the pages with some of the
most interesting thoughts that my mind is so full of, and not with
something that is dry.

This sketch is written for the good of those that have written and
prayed that the slaves might be a freed people, and have schools and
books and learn to read and write for themselves; and the Lord, in His
love for us and to us as a race, has ever found favor in His sight, for
when we were in the land of bondage He heard the prayers of the faithful
ones, and came to deliver them out of the Land of Egypt.

For God loves those that are oppressed, and will save them when they cry
unto him, and when they put their trust in Him.

Some of the dear ones have gone to the better land, but this is one of
the answers to their prayers.

We, as the Negro Race, are a free people, and God be praised for it. We
as the Negro Race, need to feel proud of the race, and I for one do with
all my heart and soul and mind, knowing as I do, for I have labored for
the good of the race, that their children might be the bright and
shining lights. And we can see the progress that we are making in an
educational way in a short time, and I think that we should feel very
grateful to God and those who are trying to help us forward. God bless
such with their health, and heart full of that same love, that this
world can not give nor taketh away.

There are many doors that are shut to keep us back as a race, but some
are opened to us, and God be praised for those that are opened to the
race, and I hope that they will be true t