247:. Hughes also recalled that, unlike other African American women in Lawrence, she would not work for others, and so did not take jobs like taking in washing or going out to cook for white families. Often they would eat dandelion greens for dinner. In order to pay their mortgage, Mary would rent their home to college students, and she and Langston moved in with the Reeds. However, her storytelling made a large impact on him. She read him stories from the Bible and
201:, and was killed in the aftermath. According to Hughes, a friend returned Leary's shawl to Mary and was treasured throughout the rest of her life, though this story may be apocryphal. The shawl, which some theorize Leary used to create a quilt, accompanied Hughes throughout his life. Leary advocated for the reburial of the victims of the raid.
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Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said
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aided Leary in raising her daughter. Over the next several years, Leary unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a job teaching freed slaves, and was offered and turned down the opportunity to emigrate to Haiti as an honored guest. In the 1860 Census, she was listed as a milliner.
193:, a fugitive slave and abolitionist, on May 12, 1858. While little is known of their courtship, they may have known each other as children. Shortly after their marriage, she abandoned her studies. Together, they operated a station on the
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