Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER IX.
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The Hot Sun--Yet bound--The Cords sink into my Flesh--Chapin's
Uneasiness--Speculation--Rachel, and her Cup of Water--Suffering
increases--The Happiness of Slavery--Arrival of Ford--He cuts the
Cords which bind me, and takes the Rope from my Neck--Misery--The
gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin--Their Kindness--Rachel
Repeats the Occurrences of the Day--Lawson entertains his
Companions with an Account of his Ride--Chapin's apprehensions
of Tibeats--Hired to Peter Tanner--Peter expounds the
Scriptures--Description of the Stocks, 118
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