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BIO OF A SLAVE My name is Noel Holmes and I am a slave .I was born in Morgantown, Kentucky, my mother was a slave and she was born in Richmond, Virginia. My father was a slave too but I didn’t know where he lived because I didn’t saw him very much. Where I was born it was a fine country but there was a problem that they didn’t like colored people and because of that they were mean to us. I had tree brothers and tree sisters but they all died and I was the only left of them. I was four years old when my father came from war and he gave me to the white people and they took care of me but it was estrange because they treated me like if I was one of them. After that when I was living there they didn’t let me do fun things they let me go outside and be with colored people but I was one of them. My father’s name is Chris and he was in the confederate army but them he changes to the Yankees because he didn’t like the way he was treated. After long time of not seen my mom I knew that she died after having eight children but those children weren’t from my father they were from my stepfather because my mom got married again so my father didn’t disturb her. after time passed I got married when I was 17 years old but back then slaves needed a license to get married but my mom wasn’t here so who would sign the papers for me so I told some white people that lived near my house that if they can help me to get a license so I could get married. So they helped me and I got married with a colored women but after tree or four years she was tired of being with me she said that I didn’t work at all so then one day I decided to talk to her and tell her that I didn’t like her anymore.