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Ella Belle Ramsey
In this excerpt, Ms. Ramsey tells of being forever separated from her family when she is bought and taken away from her family's plantation.
"When Mr. Inskip say dat he had got 'nough of looking at me an' my brudher an' siser an' brought a man to de jail to look us over an' see if he wanted to buy us. De man say he wouldn't buy nobody but me. He didn' want my sister an' brudher 'cause dey was too little. He needed a nurse for his chilluns an' I was de right size, so he bought me. I ain't never seen or heard from my mudher or my brudher or sister from that day to dis one. I don' know what happen to 'em. I don' even know if dey is alive or not. I don't know nothing 'bout 'em. My name is Ella Belle Ramsey."
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