![]() ![]() "Then let him go alone," glowered Uncle Jacob. "Surely he can wait a few weeks until the crops are in." "Abel needs to leave at sunup," Robert explained apologetically, as if humility would protect him from Uncle Jacob's wrath. "You can't think of leaving in the middle of harvest." Uncle Jacob's face bore the grim expression that Dorothea likened to a block of limestone. If anything, enslaving him would bring them even greater pleasure. Wright was safe from their ilk, for all that he had never been a slave. The abolitionist newspapers told of proslavery men who became so incensed at the sight of a newly freed slave that they would seize him and sell him back into slavery. ![]() Wright south to Virginia, both to share the work of driving the horses and to discourage unscrupulous interlopers. They had spoken of this occasion often and had agreed that Robert ought to accompany Mr. ![]() "If Abel has raised the money he must do it quickly, before her owner can change his mind again. "At long last," Dorothea's mother declared. "Abel Wright intends to purchase his wife's freedom before the month is out," Dorothea's father said to Uncle Jacob. ![]()
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