Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER XIII.
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The Curious Axe-Helve--Symptoms of approaching Illness--Continue
to decline--The Whip ineffectual--Confined to the Cabin--Visit by
Dr. Wines--Partial Recovery--Failure at Cotton Picking--What may
be heard on Epps' Plantation--Lashes Graduated--Epps in a Whipping
Mood--Epps in a Dancing Mood--Description of the Dance--Loss of
Rest no Excuse--Epps' Characteristics--Jim Burns--Removal from
Huff Power to Bayou Boeuf--Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley;
of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey; with a
Genealogical Account of each--Something of their Past History, and
Peculiar Characteristics-- Jealousy and Lust--Patsey, the Victim,
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