CHILD OUT OF PLACE A STORY FOR NEW ENGLAND By Patricia Q. Wall

"Just because you got your freedon document, Matty, it won't make you same as white folks" said Great Uncle Ned. Shocking words that December night in 1806. This sheltered child servant is finally being made to face reality and to learn the full story of her ancestors' long enslavement in the old Warren mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The setting for this fictional story is borrowed from a real 18th century mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the MacPheadris-Warner House, now a museum. A wooden structure, no longer attached to the back of that house, is said to have been a slaves' quarters. However, almost nothing is known about the enslaved Africans who were held there or what they endured.