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Narrative of My Escape from Slavery
Moses Roper

This book is about a slave with a half-white mother and a white father. He was born in North Carolina and missed death in the first few days of his life. His mother's mistress wanted to kill him because he was the son of his mother's slave master. She went to his mother's room at night with a knife but his Grandmother saved his life. Not to long after that he and his mother were sold.
When he was about six or seven years old his mothers old master died which lead to all the saves being divided between the children. He was sent to his father's wife's brother-in-law; this separated him from his mother. The way they were divided was that different names of the slave's were written on a piece of paper and put into a box. Then the children would all draw from the box and see whom they get.
He was then sent hundreds of miles away from his mother to the southern states of America. He caused this being sold to a negro......

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