VO Female Southern Accent
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) US African AmericanTranscript
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Hi. My name is Tahira. Renee Christie. I'm reading for the part of the female with a Southern accent. I'm Grace Morris Jones, granddaughter of Charlotta Piles, and I want to tell you the amazing story about her journey to freedom. It was eight years before the Civil War. In 18 53 in the shuttle slave state of Kentucky. Charlotta Piles was 49 years old when her slave master died leaving Charlotta and her family to his daughter, Ms Sarah Gordon. The journey was not easy. They traveled dusty trails and a prairie schooner driven by a six horse team. As they headed west to the Mississippi River along the underground railroad through the slave state of Missouri, they enlisted a white abolitionist preacher to help them. Travel was slow, and danger looked around every corner. The group was constantly on the lookout for slave catchers and vigilantes, slave patrols looking to kidnap black people to be so back into slavery. At Louisville, the smoke and fires and grit of factories and distilleries was their first glimpse of the city. It reminded the piles family of descriptions of hellscape. In 18 76 I was born free in Kyo kick Iowa and given the name Grace Morris Jones by my grandmother, Charlotta. Our human condition. It's the deep young inside each of us for freedom. We take up the goods started by our ancestors. Resilience, shepherds Our work for the next generations To hear a Renee Christie, take two. I'm Grace Morris Jones, granddaughter of Charlotta Piles, and I want to tell you an amazing story about her journey to freedom. It was eight years before the Civil War. In 18 53 in the shuttle slave state of Kentucky. Charlotta Piles was 49 years old when her slave master died leaving Charlotta and her family to his daughter, Ms Sarah Gordon. The journey was not easy. They traveled dusty trails in a prairie schooner driven by a six horse team. As they headed west to the Mississippi River along the underground railroad through the slave state of Missouri, they enlisted a white abolitionist preacher to help them. Travel was slow, and danger looked around every turn. The group was constantly on the lookout for slave catches and vigilante slave patrols, looking to kidnap black people to be sold back into slavery. At Louisville, the smoke and fires and grit of the factories and distilleries was their first glimpse of the city. It reminded the piles family of descriptions of hellscape. In 18 76 I was born free in Kyo Kick, Iowa and given the name Grace Morris Jones by my grandmother Charlotta. Our human condition. It's the deep young inside each of us for freedom. We take up the goods started by our ancestors resilience, shepherds, our work for the next generations.