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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

CHAPTER XX
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He never paid one dollar.
Let us now look after the other agent, who had likewise been fitted out, to prosecute his mission in the States.

That he collected money professedly for the assistance of the colony, is too well known to require proof, but how much, we could not determine; we had reason to believe, however, that he retained quite a large sum.

He would neither pay it over to the board, nor give any account of his proceedings.

Very little did he ever pay over to the aid of the colony as designed.

He was frequently written to, and every means in our power used, to induce him to give some account of his mission, but in vain; he would do nothing of the kind.


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