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The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

CHAPTER XIII
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Some have a legitimate right to do so.

But I always detested the idea of being called by the name of either of my masters.

And as for my father, I would rather have adopted the name of "Friday," and been known as the servant of some Robinson Crusoe, than to have taken his name.

So I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for a name; though I regarded the latter as of little consequence, if I could but gain the former.
Travelling along the road, I would sometimes speak to myself, sounding my name over, by way of getting used to it, before I should arrive among civilized human beings.

On the fifth or sixth day, it rained very fast, and it froze about as fast as it fell, so that my clothes were one glare of ice.


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