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furniture were used by Washington,

Returned to Alexandria
at 3 Oclock, stopped on the
way, at Fort Washington on
the Maryland side.

Made our home in Alex-
andria at the City Hotel
About 50 persons at Mrs. R.'s
meeting, receipts $19.25.

It does seem that the
fates are against us.

Mr. R. announced a second
meeting nevertheless.

March 30.
The snow falls rapidly
& steadily, melting as it
touches the ground - prospect for
meeting small indeed.

P.M. This noon I ate my
dinner without once
asking myself, are these
human beings who minis
ter to my events Slaves to
be bought & sold & hired
out at the will of a master?
And when the thought
first entered my mind, I
said, even I am getting ac-
customed to Slavery, so

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much so that I have ceased
continually to be made to
feel its blighting, cursing influence
so much so that I can sit
down & eat from the hands
of the bondman, without being
once mindful of the fact
that he was is such -

Oh Slavery hateful thing
that thou art, thus to
blunt the keen edge of
mens conscience, even while
they strive to shun thy
poisonous touch.

I learn to day that the
present owner of Mt. Vernon
is an intemperate man -
this fact added to slave-
holding, accounts for the
ruinous state of the Planta-
tion.

A white woman here, a
Slave holder, says she fre-
quently gets perfectly disgusted
with Slavery, the Licentious-
ness between the White
men & the slave women
is so universal & so revolting
free colored women will