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PROLOGUE: COLONY OF NEW YORK, 1712

LOOSE CHANGE

NOT CUTE ENOUGH

" MARY BURTON, OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, SPINSTER"

FIRE, FIRE, SCORCH, SCORCH, A LITTLE, DAMN IT, BY AND BY

"LIBERTY!"

THE SPANISH NEGROES

ENEMIES OF THEIR OWN HOUSEHOLD

A THING TO BE FEARED

FOR YOUR LIFE AND SOUL

THEY DIED VERY STUBBORNLY

"GOD DAMN ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE"

THE MONSTROUS INGRATITUDE OF THIS BLACK TRIBE

THIS IS THAT HUGHSON!

" I'VE BEEN A SLAVE LONG ENOUGH"

"HE SEEMED VERY LOATH TO DO IT"

" SUCH A PARTICULAR PERSON FORGOTTEN?"

"PEOPLE WITH RUFFLES"

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