Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Childhood
How did her grandmother become a slave?
How did her grandmother become a slave?
From the text:
She was the daughter of a planter in South Carolina, who, at his death, left her mother and his three children free, with money to go to St. Augustine, where they had relatives. It was during the Revolutionary War; and they were captured on their passage, carried back, and sold to different purchasers.
Note: Her grandmother was born a slave a freed before being captured and enslaved one again.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl