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7. Her alleged account is pretty humorous

I had read it years ago somewhere and just found it on Wikipedia. It's how she was quoted in a biography. But one thing we know of the time is that Blacks could have been quoted in an assumed vernacular they did not actually speak. Especially in the time before recording devices. That being said, here's the account:

I nebber see such a sight. We laughed, an' laughed, an' laughed. Here you'd see a woman wid a pail on her head, rice a smokin' in it jus' as she'd taken it from de fire, young one hangin' on behind, one han' roun' her forehead to hold on, t'other han' diggin' into de rice-pot, eatin' wid all its might; hold of her dress two or three more; down her back a bag with a pig in it. One woman brought two pigs, a white one an' a black one; we took 'em all on board; named de white pig Beauregard, and the black pig Jeff Davis. Sometimes de women would come wid twins hangin' roun' der necks; 'pears like I never see so many twins in my life; bags on der shoulders, baskets on der heads, and young ones taggin' behin', all loaded; pigs squealin', chickens screamin', young ones squallin'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Combahee_Ferry#Liberation_of_slaves