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EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL BY TRINITY GIDDINGS
Liverpool, England, November, 1863.
Blessing Dubois did not please Lady Alice by insisting that we leave the elegant carriage a small piece up Vauxhall Road and walk the remaining hundred yards along Naylor Street.
Yet she soon appreciated the need for an inconspicuous approach. The area was respectable enough: rows of goodsized houses with fancy bay windows and small grass plots in front of them. Blessing explained that these were the homes of draftsmen, foremen and clerks who were by no means poor, but at the same time rarely saw a liveried carriage draw up on their doorsteps.
At last we arrived at a house with plaster-cast horses decorating the fanlight above the door. As we approached, I saw the venetian blinds of the
