Narrative of Sojourner Truth a Bondswoman of Olden Time
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She sajjd her object was to arouse at tention to the wants of the freedmen. Their condition at Washington was pitiful No work could be found for tie :n. And their children were growing up in igno ranee. She described the treatment they had received during the war. Even after they were freed. "Th< poor creeters were heaped together" with no food but a ration of bread. Children were taken away from their mothers, and when the latter complained, th< were thrusl into the guard-house. She went among them, and when she told them they wire lie. , ll 1:1 not understand her. After drawings \i\id |>e <■ 226 "BOOK OF LIFE. " ture of the sufferings of the freedmen and their un- fortunate condition, even at the present time, she said : " You ask me what to do for dem 1 Do you want a poor old creeter who do' no how to read to tell edc- cated people what to do] I give you de hint, and you ought to know what to do. But if you do n't, I kin tell you. De government hab given land to de railroads in de West ; can't it do as much for these poor creeters ?
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