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Show Lucretla Matt and Slaver-. Fir many years she allowed no product pro-duct of slave labor to be used in her family, neither cotton nor sugar, nor rice, and another form of protest was of almost dramatic effect. At that time I colored people were not allowed to ride inside the horse cars in Philadelphia, and so long as this rule was enforced Mrs. Mott refused to enter the cars herself. When the conductors, seeing this gracious gra-cious lady standing on tho platform, would approach her with the offer of it seat, she would say: "Friend, does the let our colorsd brethren and sisters sit in this car?" Of ronrsa the answei would be "No." "Then I will stand here," she would gently reply, and no stress of weather would force her to take shelter within., |