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Rh, Pomeroy, H. Wilson, Patterson, and also Abraham Ivincoln and U. S. Grant. She received communications from Gerritt Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, Vice-President Colfax, Theodore Tilton and a host of other distinguished white men and women. She received calls from hundreds of the best Christian people of the North, and has been entertained in many of the aristocratic homes of the whites in this country. She sought to have the United States government set apart certain lands for the homes of ex-slaves. She was well prepared to do this work, having spent much time in the anti-slavery cause. A Northern paper said of her:

A Detroit paper said of her, among other things: