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UP FROM SLAVERY

Not long after this the coloured people in Atlanta, Georgia, gave me a reception at which the Governor of the state presided, and a similar reception was given me in New Orleans, which was presided over the Mayor of the city. Invitations came from many other places which I was not able to accept.