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I mus' tell you not to call me
'Auntie'. I aint no kin to you,
and I don't 'law no white person
to call me 'Auntie'."

"Oh, I beg your pardon. I meant
no discourtesy, but I reiterated, "did
you see Abraham Lincoln laid
out at Indianapolis?"

"Yes. I saw him laid out in
the State House there. Mother
took me and my brother to see
our President who made us
free. But three years before that, Mother
got her freedom. She ran away
with me and my brother. She
aimed to go to Chicago, but
she only got to Indinoplis.
After freedom was declared
we came back to Louisville
again."

"Why did your mother run away?"
I asked.

"Cause they whipped us chilens
so, and 'cause she was 'fraid
they'd sell her at Arterburn's