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The Most Sacred Right (2020)

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I Was Never Whipped by My Old Master

"I was seldom whipped by my old master and suffered little from anything else than hunger and cold," he writes. He has shipped a Baltimore up the Chesapeake when he's seven years old to be the playmate of his owner's brother's son. "My feet been so cracked with the frost that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes."

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