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1 My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.
2 The most trying ordeal that I was forced to endure as a slave boy, however, was the wearing of a flax shirt.
3 Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with the keenest and most intense interest.
4 Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the northern armies conquered.
5 During the period that I spent in slavery I was not large enough to be of much service, still I was occupied most of the time in cleaning the yards, carrying water to the men in the fields, or going to the mill to which I used to take the corn, once a week, to be ground.
6 At that time those cakes seemed to me to be absolutely the most tempting and desirable things that I had ever seen; and I then and there resolved that, if I ever got free, the height of my ambition would be reached if I could get to the point where I could secure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing.
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