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EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL BY TRINITY GIDDINGS
Liverpool, England, November, 1863.
Lady Alice Featherfax elevated her chin, projecting her voice heavenward and I imagined the Almighty shielding His ears against her booming tones: “ ‘Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire … And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.’ ” She looked up from the King James Bible on her lap and the fierce gleam in her eyes told me she wasn’t so much thinking of Sodom and Gomorrah as Richmond and Charleston.
“The Good Book shows us, does it not, Trinity, that those panderers to the devil’s doings are most certainly bound to tumble into his blazing abode? By which, of course, I refer
