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In Pan IV 0/ tIJis t�v� some assured her she could not leave him." nications" from colored friends, and wishing to re-
pan series" continue the do with entire safety-th� M much, ho ever, he waiters, and after giving her tum to her three children in
exciting escape 0/ Jane she might apin fmd herself affected to have such im-: a double counseling, he the South, and his goin to
Johnson and her two little in the clutches of the tyrant plicit confidence in Jane, he, made his way to the table; free her, etc., Jane declared
boys as told by . William from whom she had fled. scarcely allowed her to be remained but a little while, repeatedly and very posi­
Still. A few items of what she out of his presence a mo- owever, before leaving to tively' that there was not a
Hen we see the role 0/ related concern in the ment while in this city. To look after Jane; fmclin, her particle of truth in what her
the Vigilance Committee 0/ character of her master use Jane's own language, composed, look:in& over a .master said on these points.
the Underground Railroad may be interesting to the he as "on her' heels every bannister near where h left The truth is she had not the
and how they informed reader- minute tt fearing that her, he returned to the table slightest hope of freedom
slaVes of their right to free- Within the last two years someone might get to her again and finished his meal. through any act of his. She
dom if they were brought he had sold all his slaves- ears the sweet music of But, alas" for the slave- had only left one boy in the
'into the State by their between thirty and forty in freedom. By the way, Jane bolder! Jane had her "top South, who had beensold
master. number-s-having purchased had it deep in her heart eye open," and in that brief far away, where she scarce-
. the present ones in that before l�ving the South, space had appealed to the lyever beard from him, in-
IV of Up. . space of �e. She �d that and was bent on S':'�I sympathies of a person d� never expected Ito see
felt the iron m 'before leaving Washington, in ew York, if disap- whom she ventured to him anymore.
her heart for the best half coming on the cars, and at pointed in Philadelphia. trust, saying, "I and my In appearance Jane is tall
of her days-having been his father-in-law's in this ci- At Bloodgood's, after children are slaves, and we and well formed, high and
sold with her children on ty, a number of persons having been belated and want liberty!" I am not cer- large forehead, of genteel
the auction. bock-having had told him that in bring- left by the 2 o'clock train, tain, but suppose that per- manners, chestnut color,
bad one of her children sold ing his slaves into Pennsyl- while � waiting for the S son, in the goodness of his and seems to possess,
far away from her without vania they would be free. o'clock line, hiS appetite heart, was the cause of the naturally, uncommon good
hope of her seeing him When told at his father-in- tempted her "master" to note being sent to the Anti- sense, though of ' course she
again-she very naturally law's, as she overheard it, take a hasty dinner. So Slavery .office, and hence has never been allow' to
and wisely concluded togo th he "could not have after placing Jane where he the result. . read.
to Canada, fearing if s e done a orse thing," etc., thought she would be pretty M to her going qn to . Thus I have given as
remained in this city-as he replied that." Jane would secure from "evil �D1I!!u-. ew Yor to see her truthful a report as I am
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capable of doing, of Jane
and the circumstances con­
nected with her deliverance.
_ W. Still
P.S.-Of the five col­
ored porters who promptly
appear-ed, with warm hearts
throbbing in sympathy with
the mother and her chil­
dren, too much canno be
said in conunendation. In
the present case they acted I
nobly, whatever may be
said of their general I char­
acter, of which I kno
nothing. Ho human be­
ings, who have ever tasted
oppression, could have
acted differently under the
circumstances I cannot con-
eeive.
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Key Questions:
J. What are three main
issues raised in this article?
2. What does this article
suggest about our life situa­
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The F 0 added the African
n tkm . of Upper Volt and Guinea
u 0 its 1983 list of countries
hich. h e uffered up to t 0 con ec­
utive years of troubles cau d by drought,
Ii e tock di e es, rodent pe d fight-
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The ency, which ha 51 member
ns in Africa also ppealed for
funding for '�-emergency"
me sure, uch buying seed, vaeci-
natin live toe and improving fbod
di tribution.
In related development the State
, Department i preparing to Con-
gre for an extra 100 million in emer­
gency food id for African nations,
where drought and famine threaten
hundred of thousand of people, ys
Sen. John Danforth, R- o.
Danforth, ju t ba from an eight-
tion tour of famine and drought
are in Africa, id 300,000 people in.
ozamb ue f ce the threat of nnmed­
. te starvation, and hundred ' of thou­
nd in the Sahelian region will face
the danger of arv tion in three to .
month'.
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At the White House,' presidential
pokesman Larry Speake . d the presi-
dent has rdered a study of new U.S.
emergency food aid for famine- tric en
area of Africa.
Speakes id the administration has
release 32.7 million nd 73000 met­
ric tons of food for ozam ique and
seven other nation hurt by food ort­
ages.
Danforth said many people in." Mo­
zambique, one of the harde t-hi� nations,
have been reduced to eating 'leaves
root and nuts because the la emer­
gency food reached them in ovember.
"Africa is now the o. 1 hunger
probeni iil the world;" said Danforth.
He id he also told Reagan intern -
tional relief agencie need to get into
the troubled nation to be re emer­
gency food aid' properly distributed. '
The f ct that ozarnb . que . anti
nation, said Danforth, should have no
bearing on providing emergency food I
aid.
"The basic principle with re ect to
food aid. is it doe n't depend on po ti­
cal philosphy. It ha to be offered. be­
cau they're human being ," he said.
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