No matter how the wind and the stars carried the news, the slaves knew Sherman was coming. All they had to do was wait: as they sang the Spiritual 'Why can't I Wait on the Lord?' They had the patience to know He may not come when you call Him, but He always comes on time.
MamaDear who was the first to be born free, married Watson and birthed three sons and a daughter. She gave her youngest son the sterling silver mirror when he graduated from Fisk University.
We forget the enslaved had no way of knowing what they looked like except through the eyes of those who loved them. The men had no shoes to wear other than their feet became leather.
When I left my parents' home, I was the youngest daughter. I took only two things: a diamond pendant Sister Althea gave me for eighth-grade graduation and the Sterling Silver Hand Mirror. I am 81 years old: I have both still.
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