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Updated: June 14, 2025

"Freedom is beautiful!" "Oh, Virgie," Samson answered, covering her with his own coat, "if I could buy you free, pore chile, I'd a-mos' go into slavery to save you from dis night." "I can die in there," Virgie said, pointing to the waves; "they must not catch me."

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times