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_Parentage_.
MY FATHER SHROUDED IN MYSTERY--MY MOTHER--HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE--INTERFERENCE OF SLAVERY WITH THE NATURAL AFFECTIONS OF MOTHER AND CHILDREN--SITUATION OF MY MOTHER--HER NIGHTLY VISITS TO HER BOY--STRIKING INCIDENT--HER DEATH--HER PLACE OF BURIAL.
If the reader will now be kind enough to allow me time to grow bigger, and afford me an opportunity for my experience to become greater, I will tell him something, by-and-by, of slave life, as I saw, felt, and heard it, on Col.

Edward Lloyd's plantation, and at the house of old master, where I had now, despite of myself, most suddenly, but not unexpectedly, been dropped.

Meanwhile, I will redeem my promise to say something more of my dear mother.
I say nothing of _father_, for he is shrouded in a mystery I have never been able to penetrate.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.