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I always had plenty to do. Fast as one child would be walkin', then I would have another one to nurse.

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Louisa Picquet, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (1861), p. 7; Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interview narrative recorded by Hiram Mattison.

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Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
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1861
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p. 7

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