He invariably met these
retorts with roars of laughter and loud assertions of his being "in grace
once for all."
* * * * *
Left the sole representative of my family in the city, I had to start a new
establishment, just as Mammy did.
I made a visit to hers a few days after our separation, and came away with
my heart in my mouth at the sight of some of the familiar objects of
Mammy's room, and such of our own as she had fallen heir to, in strange
places and appositions. I also felt that Mammy's room had a more homelike
aspect than my own.
There was no doubt that Mammy enjoyed her new conditions and surroundings.
She had been provided with a paper signed by some of us, stating that it
was with our permission that she lived to herself. This secured her free
movement at all times--the privilege of very few of her race not legally
manumitted.
Her visits to me were quite frequent, and she never failed to find
something that needed putting to rights, and putting it so immediately,
with fierce comments on the worthlessness of all "high-lands," which was
_negroce_ for hirelings--a class held in contempt by the servants owned in
families.
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