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"A few years only, but long enough to be rich and to be ruined. I know the negro coast from the Gambia to Cape Palmas, and inland to Timbo. I have had an African queen and the African fever: I went to conquer Africa and became a slave." "In Africa, I 'spect, Captain," Levin remarked, without inference, "a nigger-trader is respectable." Van Dorn shook his head.
"About ten year ago, sir, when I had been bound to Patty Cannon four year, I reckon, I see Patty an' Joe Johnson an' Ebenezer, his brother, all toting this chist to the field an' a-buryin' of it." "What did you see them put in that chest?" "A dead man a nigger-trader. I can't tell whether his name was Bell or Miller; she killed two men nigh that time, an' I was so little that I've got 'em mixed."
I've heard as how he war seen, years ago, in New Orleans he war a nigger-trader, then an' that he's come up in th' bluegrass country, since, like enough under another name." He looked at Holton eagerly. "I say, sir, you don't know a man like that, do you?" Holton spoke a little hurriedly. "No, no; there ain't no man like that in these parts." "It don't make no differ whar he bides," said Joe.
Yer copper-colored hide wouldn't be worth a sixpence to a nigger-trader not even to old Norman Gadsden, that I've heard 'em tell so much about in the Liverpool docks.
"He come mighty nigh givin' Joe Johnson a lickin' last Sunday, sir, in Princess Anne. He hates a nigger-trader. Him an' Samson Hat, a black feller, thinks as much of each other as two brothers." "And he gave you a boat?" "Yes, sir: Joe Johnson hired it of me, but I didn't know he was goin' to run away niggers.
When we arrived at Richmond, George Pullan, a "nigger-trader," as he was called, came to the boat and began to question me, asking me first if I could remember having had the chickenpox, measles or whooping-cough. I answered, yes. Then he asked me if I did not want to take a little walk with him. I said, no. "Well," said he, "you have got to go.
That nigger-trader shot me an' threatened Levin's life if he listened to me hailing of him. The noise I heard was the murder of the baby, whose cries betrayed the coming of the vessel. Samson, thar's been treachery ever sence we left Salisbury, an' that nigger Dave's a part of it." "He said he hated me caze I larned him to box.
"'Ole Nick done sont 'im back ter Mars Dunkin, who had fotch 'im heah fer ter pay a gamblin' debt ter Mars Jeems, sez Solomon, 'en I heahs Mars Dunkin has sol' 'im ter a nigger-trader up in Patesville, w'at 's gwine ter ship 'im off wid a gang ter-morrer. "Ole Aun' Peggy 'peared ter git rale stirred up w'en Solomon tol' 'er dat, en sez she, shakin' her stick at 'im:
It will scarce grieve you to know that "Bully Bill" experienced a somewhat similar fate that Ruffin, the man-hunter, was drowned by a sudden rising of the swamp and that the "nigger-trader" afterwards became a "nigger-stealer;" and for that crime was sentenced at the court of Judge Lynch to the punishment of "tar and feathers."
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