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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER VIII
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He was an overseer; but he was something more.

With the malign and tyrannical qualities of an overseer, he combined something of the lawful master.

He had the artfulness and the mean ambition of his class; but he was wholly free from the disgusting swagger and noisy bravado of his fraternity.

There was an easy air of independence about him; a calm self-possession, and a sternness of glance, which might well daunt hearts less timid than those of poor slaves, accustomed from childhood and through life to cower before a driver's lash.

The home plantation of Col.


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