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How I gained my Freedom
Back in St. Louis, Keckley's needle supports a household of seventeen; her patrons raise $1,200, and the deeds of emancipation for herself and her son are reproduced word for word.
Dressmaking that kept the Garland household afloatMrs. Le Bourgeois and the St. Louis patrons' loanThe $1,200 purchase of herself and GeorgeThe emancipation papers quoted in full