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title: 'Aunt Dorothy: An Old Virginia Plantation Story'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Margaret Junkin Preston'
date: 1890-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Fiction'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
scriptures:
- 'John 2'
- 'James 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/preston-1890-aunt-dorothy-an-old-virginia-plantation-story
---

# Aunt Dorothy: An Old Virginia Plantation Story

1890 historical-fiction vignette on a Southern plantation where enslaved people, in dialect, gather to pray for their dying mistress, led by Uncle Reuben.

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