8/14/2023 0 Comments Mrs john quincy adamsLesson I will give you this." "All right.In his introduction to The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk, editor Allan Nevins wrote that “no other American diarist touched life at quite so many points, over quite so long a period, as John Quincy Adams.” Adams’s remarkable diary spanned nearly 50 years of his life, most of which he spent in public service to his country. So he would get all the nice fruit he could,Ĭhildren all played together. Know that boys and girls are very fond of The daughtersīut the best of all was my brother Robert Then, and now not worth 25 cents a piece. If some of the children in these days hadįamily. Would dress us and take us to church, but Sometimes she did not speak for a day, but Would go to mother's bedside and cry-we thought that she was dead, for Sickly, and did not think they would raise We missed each other very much for a long Just as soon as he was well I was well too.Īlways together, and were never satisfied Sickly at that time and if it had not been for that Then, but I tried to learn all I could so that I might Know it." When an election was going on they Say, "try to hear all you can, but don't let them I would always say "nothing," but goĪnd tell my father and mother, and they would Then I felt satisfied that there wasĪnd write that they did not want the negro toĪround and listen. Often heard the white people say that theyĭid not want the negro to learn to read and Would like to know how to read and write, but Used to tell us that we would not be always There were four pairs of twins, and I am one of them. In my father's family there were twenty-five children, fifteen boys and ten girls. They are both living, and are in very good health, and enjoying freedom, as well as every other citizen. My mother was seventeen years old when she was married, and my father eighteen. My father and mother were both slaves, and belonged to the same family. I was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1845, and was the slave of Mr. The strong must bear the infirmities of the week. This book is not published to create any excitement or to accuse any one wrongfully, but the true facts as I can remember them to the best of my knowledge and ability. All intelligent persons know that a man who went to school but four months in his life, and that to night school, and sometimes only three nights in a week, would be incapable to write this little book as it should be written. I hope that God will bless me in my effort to publish the true facts and incidents as they occurred from time to time. There is not much expected of a man at his first attempt who has spent his early days in slavery, and has had no opportunity to learn to read or write, but believing that this little book will help me to do better in the future I feel encouraged to persevere, as I have always done, to the best of my knowledge. If you cannot write it intelligentlyĭo the best you can, and next time endeavor to do better. Many persons may think that a man who would publish his life should do it intelligently, and do I. Believing that every person, who regards those that are striving to educate themselves, will give this little book some encouragement when its author presents it to them, and believing that every gentleman and lady will do so, I feel satisfied to submit the following facts of my life when in slavery and now as a freeman. To the friends of progress and elevation I propose to write a narrative of real life as a slave and as a citizen. SIEG, PRINTER AND STATIONER.Įvery book has its preface-a book without a preface would be like a city without a directory, or an animal with only part of the organs necessary to its existence. Fugitive slaves - Virginia - Biography.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.African Americans - Virginia - Biography.African Americans - Pennsylvania - Biography.Verification made against printed text usingĪuthor/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs. Left quotation marks are encoded as ' and Left quotation marks are encoded as " and " Removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined toĮm dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CHĭigitization project, Documenting the AmericanĮdition has been transcribed from a photocopy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Supported the electronic publication of this title. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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