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EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL BY TRINITY GIDDINGS
Liverpool, England, November, 1863.
We stepped down from the hansom cab in Canning Place and I followed Lady Alice along the sidewalk towards the colonnaded portico of Custom House. Salt tang carried from Canning Dock, stirring in with scents of fresh manure and spiky whiffs of grog shop gin and pickled whelks.
Organ grinder in a dented derby hat cranked the handle on his music barrel while a little monkey, decked out in a scarlet pageboy cap, capered on the cobbles. Tune was so out of key that I pondered whether the seagulls up above were mewling in accompaniment or protest. Folk watched, grinning, on occasion tossing pennies, and I stole a moment to study on the plight of that monkey, so removed from his place of natural
