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Called all us slaves up there together. Told us we was just as free as she was. I always will remember that. "I stayed there till we got through the crop. Then I went to Paris, Texas and portered in a little hotel there. Then I went wagonin' haulin' stuff. "They used to whip me in slavery times when they got ready. Need it? well, they said I did.
Half a dozen cavalry were riding up a combe far off. But they were our own men, not the militia. They were some of our scouts riding off as "feelers" to spy out Albemarle's position. All the time that we were up there on the hill, the little old man portered about among the men, now listening to what they had to say, now asking the soldiers to look at his pretty puppets.
I was gettin' purty disgusted with business, but he told me that the man what owned the whole store had started in as a porter; so I went back an' portered harder than ever that afternoon, wonderin' what in thunder kind of a man it was who could save enough out of a porter's wages to buy a store like that.
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