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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD I had just been whipped. I can remember it all to well. The master had always been nice to me but now he was being different. His wife had gone away a few months ago and he had used me to be his belly warmer. I was then carrying his child and he still had the nerve to beat me. That day he was angry he found me lying in my quarters and …

…His said my punishment was to live those months thinking that I would die once our baby was brought into this world. I was shocked and realized that behind this gut I thought mean there was a nice guy. I lived out the rest of my days there and was treated very well. My baby grew up and got an education and the master moved me into the house to be his assistant at everything.