![]() I had no heavy tasks to do and she was as careful over me as if she had been my own mother, and used to keep me with her in the house, that I might not be playing about in the streets with bad companions. ![]() Whilst I lived with my aunt at Kingston I We had no one else to love-she was all the world to us. She was a very good, kind woman, and a Christian, though a black woman and we (her relations) all loved her very, very much. He was very grateful to aunt Daphne for all that she had done for him and so were we all. He was ill a long, long time it was many long weary months before he could even take up a broom to sweep the house. She found my poor uncle in a very miserable state, and in this condition she bought him of his master, and brought him back to St. She had never crossed the water, or been on the great sea, but she overcame her fears, and hired a small boat, and went directly to St. My aunt was glad to find that he was still living, and she went herself to make him free. Vincent's, told her that he lay very sick on Mr. ![]() Lucia, and it was some yearsīefore aunt Daphne heard any tidings of him. Wilson sent him away to the Island of St. Wilson, the gentleman who purchased the estate, would not sell him, His reason for refusing my aunt never knew, for my uncle was an old man then, and nearly past work. Ottley's executor and, as it was her earnest desire to make us all happy, she would have bought my uncle John Baptiste (my mother's brother) too but Mr. She had a large heart, and felt great kindness for her own people but her means were not equal to her good wishes. #CLIPPING EFFECT RACE RACERENDER FREE#Finding it a good thing to be free, aunt Daphne wished to make all her friends free also, particularly the slaves on the estate where she was born, and with whom she had shared, in her early days, all the sorrows of negro servitude. After his death she went to reside at Kingston. ![]() She had money left her by a coloured gentleman of the name of Crosbie, with whom she lived, and whose name she took. Before Cane Grove was sold, my aunt, Daphne Crosbie, took the opportunity of buying my mother and me of Mr. Ottley died and shortly after the estate was put to sale, that the property might be divided among his family. My father and mother, at the time of my birth, were slaves on Cane Grove estate, in Bucumar Valley, then the property of Mr. Vincent's, and baptized by the name of Ashton Warner, in the parish church, by the Rev. ![]()
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