Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER VI.
Freeman's Industry--Cleanliness and Clothes--Exercising
in the Show Room--The Dance--Bob, the Fiddler--Arrival of
Customers--Slaves Examined--The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans--Sale
of David, Caroline, and Lethe--Parting of Randall and
Eliza--Small-Pox--The Hospital--Recovery and Return to Freeman's
Slave Pen--The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt--Eliza's Agony
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