Just before we started, my grandmother came to bid me farewell; I gave her my hand as well as I could, and she having given me two or three presents, we parted. I had felt enough, far too much for the weak state I was in; but how shall I describe my feelings upon parting with the last relative I ever saw? The reader must judge by what would be his own feelings under similar circumstances.

A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery