Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER XIV.
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Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845--Demand for Laborers
in St. Mary's Parish--Sent thither in a Drove--The Order
of the March--The Grand Coteau--Hired to Judge Turner on
Bayou Salle--Appointed Driver in his Sugar House--Sunday
Services--Slave Furniture; how obtained--The Party at Yarney's,
in Centreville--Good Fortune--The Captain of the Steamer--His
Refusal to Secrete me--Return to Bayou Boeuf--Sight of
Tibeats--Patsey's Sorrows--Tumult and Contention--Hunting the
Coon and Opossum--The Cunning of the latter--The Lean Condition
of the Slave--Description of the Fish Trap--The Murder of the
Man from Natchez--Epps Challenged by Marshall--The Influence of
Slavery--The Love of Freedom, 191
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