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"When, the next morning after reaching Bucksville, my drummer friend had finished business and packed his trunks, he said to me: 'Billie, I guess you may go and get the team ready. I answered him, saying, 'The team is ready and backed up, sir, for the trunks. In three minutes the trunks were loaded in and we were off.
"A traveling man whose home was in my native town took me along with him, one day, when he made a team trip to Bucksville, an inland country town, fourteen miles away. That was a great trip for me fourteen miles, and staying over night in a hotel! the first time I had ever done so in my life. And for the first time I knew how it felt to have a strange landlord call me "mister."
Whitby by name, who married in Bucksville, S.C., and by marriage came into possession of some slaves, in July, 1838, was about moving to another station to preach, and wished, also, to move his family and slaves to Tennessee, much against the will of the slaves, one of which, to get clear from him, ran into the woods after swimming a brook.
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