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    "text": "Rhodes’ slave! Selling shoes and gingham,",
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    "text": "Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long",
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    "text": "For fourteen hours a day for three hundred and thirteen days",
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    "text": "For more than twenty years.",
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    "text": "Saying “Yes’m” and “Yes, sir” and “Thank you”",
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    "text": "A thousand times a day, and all for fifty dollars a month.",
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    "text": "Living in this stinking room in the rattle-trap “Commercial.”",
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    "text": "And compelled to go to Sunday School, and to listen",
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   {
    "text": "To the Rev. Abner Peet one hundred and four times a year",
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    "text": "For more than an hour at a time,",
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    "text": "Because Thomas Rhodes ran the church",
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    "text": "As well as the store and the bank.",
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    "text": "So while I was tying my neck-tie that morning",
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    "text": "I suddenly saw myself in the glass:",
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    "text": "My hair all gray, my face like a sodden pie.",
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    "text": "So I cursed and cursed: You damned old thing!",
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    "text": "You cowardly dog! You rotten pauper!",
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    "text": "You Rhodes’ slave! Till Roger Baughman",
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    "text": "Thought I was having a fight with someone,",
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    "text": "And looked through the transom just in time",
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    "text": "To see me fall on the floor in a heap",
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