Lunsford Lane

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Perceiving that I was getting along so well, I began, slave as I was, to think about taking a wife.

So in May, 1828, I was bound as fast in wedlock as a slave can be.

So that, both as to food and clothing, I had in fact to support both my wife and the children, while he claimed them as his property, and received all their labor.

I told her that it reminded me of a poor shoemaker in the neighborhood who purchased a ticket in a lottery; but not expecting to draw, the fact of his purchasing it had passed out of his mind.