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CHAPTER II
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THE NEGRO SALE.
AS might have been expected, the day of sale brought an unusually large number together to compete for the property to be sold.

Farmers, who make a business of raising slaves for the market, were there, and slave-traders, who make a business of buying human beings in the slave-raising States and taking them to the far South, were also in attendance.

Men and women, too, who wished to purchase for their own use, had found their way to the slave sale.
In the midst of the throng was one who felt a deeper interest in the result of the sale than any other of the bystanders.

This was young Linwood.


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