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PART 1 CHAPTER 17
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PART 1 CHAPTER
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January 1863. From Mary.
Tom, do you remember Mr. Shumate’s girl Sukie? A year before the war, we spied
her along the road clutching a handwritten pass that permitted her to leave her
master’s property. She balanced a knobby bundle on her head under a sky that
about my age and had a quiet nature. I recently saw her in the awfulest circumstances
Pa encouraged me on New Year’s Day to accompany him on one of his usually
preserve what meat we trapped. The government now distributes small quantities to
the few shops, but salt is fetched up quick as a blink when set out for sale. Any
several summers ago—you must remember it—when we rode into Staunton for that
As Pa would be a while, I thought to stroll around by the train station. But as I
crowd of finely dressed strangers milled around at the foot of the wide stone steps and
stretched out down along Augusta Street. Law, I never heard such deep Southern
drawls as they hailed one another. The street was a sea of black stovepipe hats that
coats, vests, and matched trousers. Some streamed from the American Hotel and must
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buck
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laborer
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auction
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growled
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untoward
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inquisitiveness
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alley
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shackled
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hemp
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implored
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frantic
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fetters
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warehouse
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pried
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uncouth
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heinous
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appraise
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industrious
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raucous
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foodstuffs
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scrunched
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horrified
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outright
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auctioned
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bidders
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wailing
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cleaved
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scattered
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somber
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deceptions
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promulgate
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dreary
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auctions
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plantation
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lucrative
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emancipation
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