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john9221 · Wysłany: Pią 11:22, 11 Mar 2011

ere thenand
only a handful did nowout on the fringes of a town of a couple of
thousand where just about everybody was descended from runaway
slaves whom the Haddonfield Quakers had protected—the
mayor was descended from themthe fire chiefthe police chief
the tax collectorthe teachers in the grade schoolthe kids in the
grade school. But the uniqueness of Lawnside as a Negro town had
no bearing on anything either. Nor did the uniqueness of Gouldtown
farther south in Jerseydown by Cape May. That's where
her mother's people were fromand that's where the family went to
live after the death of her father. Another settlement of colored
peopl yilai:
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somehow related to everyone else. "Wayway back as she used
to explain to Col[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n when he was a boy—simplifying and condensing
as best she could all the lore she'd ever heard—a slave was
owned by a Continental Army soldier who'd been killed in the
French and Indian War. The slave looked after the soldier's widow.
He did everything
from dawn to dark didn't stop doing what
needed to be done. He chopped and hauled the wood
gathered the
crops
excavated and built a cabbage h