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

CHAPTER XV
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SAD REVERSES OF CAPT.

HELM.
I must again introduce to the kind reader my old master, Capt.

Helm, who we left residing in Bath, several years ago.

And as I have before intimated he had now become a very poor man; indeed so reduced was he now that he lived with one of his slave women, and was supported by public charity! Learning, too, that I had saved by my industry a few hundred dollars, it seemed very congenial with his avaricious habits to endeavor to obtain what I possessed.

In accordance with his plan he employed a lawyer named Lewland to come to my place of business, which he did, and demanded of me to pay Capt.


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