Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER XVIII.
75 words | Chapter 19
O'Niel, the Tanner--Conversation with Aunt Phebe overheard--Epps
in the Tanning Business--Stabbing of Uncle Abram--The Ugly
Wound--Epps is Jealous--Patsey is Missing--Her Return from
Shaw's--Harriet, Shaw's Black Wife--Epps Enraged--Patsey
denies his Charges--She is Tied Down Naked to Four Stakes--The
Inhuman Flogging--Flaying of Patsey--The Beauty of the Day--The
Bucket of Salt Water--The Dress stiff with Blood--Patsey
grows Melancholy--Her Idea of God and Eternity--Of Heaven and
Freedom--The Effect of Slave-Whipping--Epps' Oldest Son--"The
Child is Father to the Man," 250
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