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The Silver Trump of Freedom
In 1838 there were about 3000 slaves in Baltimore, but 17,000 free blacks. He lived amongst a large free black man and moved around with relative ease. Eventually as a teenager gets jobs down on the warves he becomes an indentured servant. But by then his condition has become so bad that he can no longer bear it.