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- You'll be a nursemaid for this baby!
- You'll be punished if you fall asleep, now but the baby to sleep!
- this is Jaylen she was born into slavery and she was made a nurse maid.
- She stayed up all night having to care for this child, and if she fell asleep, she'd be punished.
- Let's go, you'll be safe!
- she was known around the slaves for helping a slave escape. A heavy iron weight was thrown at him but missed and hit her instead. It nearly crushed her skull and she suffered from it her whole life.
- she then married her husband Jamal who was a free man throughout their marriage they would gather up slaves and help free them and sometimes had help from whites.
- Jaylen left to Philadelphia, but she wasn't done there. She came back to help other slaves escape. She was a nurse too and the injuries she had before never stopped her. They went through an Underground Railroad.
- most slaves followed the north star so they could travel north as soon as the people took them as far as they could because the north was not a slave state.
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