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Recall Refusal of Negro Slave to be Liberated. - - Parkville, Missouri, March 5. - Old residents of Platte County Thursday recalled the indignant refusal of a Negro woman born in slavery to accept the freedom conferred by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
"I ain't even goin' to leave the Samuels," declared Tilda Chevis Samuels, the slave woman, when informed she was free. "They raised me and I'se goin' to stick to 'em."
Through 4 generations she lived in the household of the family of Robert Samuels. She was buried Wednesday in the Samuels plot in Barry cemetery.Date(s) of Creation
3/5/1931
