Autobiography Including Also Reminiscences of Slave Life Recollections of the
Autobiography Including Also Reminiscences of Slave Life Recollections of the
James Lindsay Smith
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, I became ac- quainted with a man by the name of Amos B. Her- ring, a native of Africa. It seems he had been on to Springfield once before, but, not having finished his education, he had returned to complete his course at Wilbraham Academy. He was a widower with six boys, the two eldest of whom he had left in Paris, to be educated, while he had come here. His wife had been dead four years ; so he left his beautifully fur- nished house in Monrovia in charge of a housekeeper, paying her a dollar... a month — just here you will see how 74 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES L. SMITH. low wages were in Africa. He told me every thing was nearly as cheap as could be. He had not been in Springfield long before he became acquainted with a Mrs. L. Ucy Terret, of Washington, D. C. They mar- ried ; but upon his returning to Africa his wife did not long survive. She had made a great many friends during her stay in Springfield, and when he wrote back that his wife was dead we could not but regret that she had ever left us.
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