hear him shouting, “But I paid two hundred dollars for you.… - Percival Everett

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hear him shouting, “But I paid two hundred dollars for you.” A man who refused to own slaves but was not opposed to others owning slaves was still a slaver, to my thinking.

Percival Everett

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Percival Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and professor.

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