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Updated: July 11, 2025
"You tink I's a free man! but I's a slabe, same as yourself, on'y de diff'rence am dat dere's nobody to ransum me, so dey don't boder deir heads 'bout me s'long as I do my work. If I don't do my work I'm whacked; if I rebel and kick up a shindy I'm whacked wuss; if I tries to run away I'm whacked till I'm dead. Das all. But I's not free. No, no not at all!
Sure 'nough, dey did fetch me to dis island and dey did sell me for a slabe," said old Katie. "But hadn't you a tongue in your head? Couldn't you have told the people here that you were free?" demanded Judge Merlin impatiently. "An' sure, didn't I do it? Didn't I pallaber till my t'roat was sore? And didn't poor Jim and Sally pallaber till deir t'roats was sore?
"Geo'ge," said Peter solemnly, "you tell me you hab took 'vantage ob bein' invited to your master's house to make lub plo plotummikilly or oderwise to your master's slabe?" "No, Peter, I told you nothing of the sort. The meeting with Hester was purely accidental at least it was none of my seeking and I did not make love to her " "Did she make lub to you, Geo'ge plo plotummikilly." "Certainly not.
"I'se no niggah slabe, you white trash! I'se free 'Badian born, an' 'low no man make joke ob me!" Mick roused up in a minute.
"Yes, de good Lord be praised for sending good massa Grobener to take me away from old slabe massa. I gets so filled wid liberty sometimes, dat I mistakes myself for white man." "Well, you are as good as a white man, any day; but tell me, Vingo, if you have ever been much on the water?"
I shouldn't wonder, now, if Ben-Ahmed will hab to account to do Dey for de tottle disappearance of Hugh Sommers to say not'ing ob Eddard La La what's-'is-name an' p'r'aps he'd like to be able to say he'd no notion o' what de man he sent to fetch de slabe was goin' to do. Now he couldn't hab say dat, you know, if he let you tell him all about it like a goose as you was.
A negro, who was dressed up like a white man, was holding de horse. He showed me to climb up behind, de oders climb up in front, and we dribe away." "Well, sar, work bery much de same on plantation in Virginia and Cuba, but de slabe much merrier in 'Merica, when de master am good. My new massa bery good man. Slabes all treat bery kind, work not too hard. At night dance and sing bery much.
Now you got de paper you free woman, but you wife ob slabe; might be difficulty about it. Me fear dat broder Dick ruined de plantation and slabes to be sole; and wid dat she bu'st out crying wus dan eber. Ob course my wife she cry too. "'Better you go norf, Sally, missy say presently. 'I gib you letter to friends dar, and tell dem you bery good nurse.
He say dat very soon perhaps to-morrow or next day, or de day after one big cauffle of slabe most likely comin' here for be ship away from de coas'; and now dat he am goin' to die he feel sorry for dem slabe and feel glad if dem was set free." "Whew!" I whistled. "That is a bit of news well worth knowing if it can be relied upon. Do you believe that the fellow is telling the truth, Cupid?"
He did n' mix' wid ner talk much ter de res' er de niggers, en could n' 'pear ter git it th'oo his min' dat he wuz a slabe en had ter wuk en min' de w'ite folks, spite er de fac' dat Ole Nick gun 'im a lesson eve'y day. En fin'lly Mars Johnson 'lowed dat he could n' do nuffin wid 'im; dat ef he wuz his nigger, he 'd break his sperrit er break 'is neck, one er de yuther.
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