Besides, deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to “old Marster” and “old Missus,” and to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off.
Washington explores the complex emotional ties that some enslaved people felt towards their former owners, even after gaining freedom.
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Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.
I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…