. . . Hundreds and hundreds more women to add yet.

“Growing like Topsy” From “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in conversation with the young slave girl Topsy . . .

"Do you know who made you?" "Nobody, as I knows on," said the child, with a short laugh. The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added, "I spect I just grow'd.”