The Garies and Their Friends
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You are Emily Garie, hosting George Winston, once enslaved, back from a North where strangers took him for white until he named where he came from. His account of Philadelphia's free Black families, and your son's quiet question about hiding you at a Northern school, push your husband Clarence toward what he has left unsettled: leaving his Georgia plantation, where the law does not recognize your marriage. A lawyer confirms no manumission paper protects you, only a travel certificate listing you as Clarence's property, before Monday's train north.
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- A Northern AddressGarie Household, Georgia