We are two little brothers, four and three years old, orphaned by slavery; no father’s care for us; our poor mother can make no safe home for herself and five little ones; we have no earthly protection, except that which pity has drawn around us; and we beg for shelter and parental care and affection in some of the happy homes of New England, where we will be good and affectionate.
Johnnie and Janie —-Apply at Theodore Parker’s, 1 Exeter Pl., Boston. (Liberator, October 19, 1855, pg 3)
