![]() She picked up two logs and headed for the stove, which sat near one of the doors. The people in the audience looked at her, none raised their hands in pursuit of her-none except Paul, who she heard tell his young charge that she would make a good kitchen wench and companion for Ruth. A toubab, filthy and smelling of ale, stood next to her and shouted numbers. She was marched from the wagon onto some platform, where she stood before a great crowd. Once they got past the lumbering trees, the road opened up upon a great number of buildings, the kind of which she had never seen. ![]() Her old master had loaded her up onto a wagon, chained her feet, and sat her amongst some other frightened people. She had only seen the square once, when she was dragged from Georgia and hauled off to Mississippi. During the day, that window allowed her to see past the row of willow trees in front of the house, down the long path that led to the front fence and intersected with the dusty road to Vicksburg's town square. ![]() ![]() There was a pile of them under another window, one which faced south. She moved over toward of the front of the kitchen to get some logs to heat the stove. ![]()
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