Identifier: womanslifeworkla01havi (find matches)
Title: A woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Haviland, Laura S. (Laura Smith), 1808-1898
Subjects: Underground Railroad Freedmen United States -- Race relations
Publisher: Cincinnati, Printed by Walden & Stowe
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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,Esther M., was at the same hour married to Almon Cam-l)uru, of Franklin, both of our own county. The mothersearnest prayer was, that these children might prove eachothers burden-sharers, thereby doubling the joys, as wellas dividing the sorrows, of life. My daughters husbandwas one of our students, and in some of her studies aclassmate. We were fortunate in again securing brother Patchiuto finish the academic year in our institution. Though thecloud looked dark that overhung our institution, by the 52 A womans life-avork. sudden deaths of my husband, and sister Emily Galpin,which caused her bereaved husband to leave as soon ashis place could be filled by a successor, we had the con-sciousness that our school Avas taking a deep hold on theminds of the community at large, as well as exercising amarked influence upon the young people who were enjoy-ing its privileges. We found an increasing interest inabolition principles throughout our community. In thiswe praised God and took courage.
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AUNT I.UCY. 53 Chapter III. AXTI-SLAVKRY EXrERIENCES. This chapter intruduces the reaJei* to representativesof a large proportion of slave-owners of the SouthernStates, Avho were perverted by a system well-nuiucd thesum of all villainies. Willis Hamilton, an emancipated slave, the hero of thisnarrative, who fled to Canada with his slave wife, Elsie, tosock for her the protection of the British lion from the mer-ciless talons of the freedom-shrieking American eagle, wasemancipated three years ))revious to the date of this chap-ter, together with nineteen others (the reputed goods andchattels of John Bayliss, a Baptist deacon, near Jones-borough, Tennessee). Slaveholder though he was, JohnBayliss evidently thought his black jjcople had souls as wellas those of white skins, for he allowed his house servantsto remain in the dining-room during evening family wor-ship, thus giving them instruction which, as the sequel willshow, made the slave the teacher of the master; for onemorning, as Au

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