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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER VIII
15/18

A warrant was issued for her arrest, but, for some reason or other, that warrant was never served.

Thus did Mrs.Hicks not only escape condign punishment, but even the pain and mortification of being arraigned before a court of justice.
Whilst I am detailing the bloody deeds that took place during my stay on Col.

Lloyd's plantation, I will briefly narrate another dark transaction, which occurred about the same time as the murder of Denby by Mr.Gore.
On the side of the river Wye, opposite from Col.

Lloyd's, there lived a Mr.Beal Bondley, a wealthy slaveholder.

In the direction{99} of his land, and near the shore, there was an excellent oyster fishing ground, and to this, some of the slaves of Col.


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