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came after a vicious beating.
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He'd been beaten many more times than he could count
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and he'd been put in neck braces and leg chains
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and ankle chains and wrist chains
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and every kind of-- he'd experienced about
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every kind of brutality slavery could wreak upon a teenage kid.
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One day, he crashed his master's carriage
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and the master got so angry
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that he took him to the slave jail,
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hired the jailer to give him thirty lashes
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with the ugliest whip they had,
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this contraption they had that would make you bleed on every lash.