Unnamed man finds his sister, Louisa Smith, through ad

ROMANCES OF SLAVERY TIMES.
There are more romances of the cruel days of
slavery among the colored people, even a quar-
ter [quarter] of a century after the emancipation procla-
mation [proclamation], than white-skinned people are generally
aware. It is quite customary for inquiries to be
read from the pulpits of colored churches asking
the whereabouts of a brother or a sister, or per-
haps [perhaps] a mother or son, from whom the person
making the inquiry was separated either during
the war or before the war, when families were
divided by the auction-block. The other day a
letter was read from the pulpit of one of the
colored Baptist churches of this city, in which a
brother asked about a sister, from whom he had
been separated for over twenty years. The
same letter had probably been read, as it is the
custom, in nearly all the colored churches in the
country. This one found an answer, the sister
being Louisa Smith, a worthy colored woman,
who has lived in this city many years, and is
now in the family of Dr. J. L. Thompson. The
brother is a preacher in St. Joseph, Mo., and
they were separated in Kentucky when the war
was in progress.