It was in vain that Cole protested,
“I don’t want to be a free nigger,” signaled he, complainingly, to Tom. “I want to live here on this plantation.”
Tom patted the giant negro’s great shoulder.
“It would be the most unhappy day of my life, Cole, to see you leave the plantation,” said he. “But after what you have done, we can’t hold you in slavery. You must be a free man—as free, as completely at liberty as our country.”
THE END
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