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I'm now on pg 104: "...then make for it's final landing. Finally, the Providence, registered in 1724, bonded at London, England, and mastered by Captain Egerton Cutler, entered the waters of the English colonies with only 174 enslaved human souls left spared...As the vessel kept charting closer and closer to the land, Akey noted a banner...with funny scribble lines making no sense, that to Akey's eyes looked like this: YORKTOWN Finally the slaver kept to a stop. The date was June 7, 1725. Page 105: "Who will start this bidding?"...as the auction appeared to die down and lose steam, the Africans who were still left were taken back to the pens...Akey and Botswain were to be transported into the northern neck of the Virginia colony to a tobacco plantation in Westmoreland County, owned by their auction buyer, Colonel George Eskridge of Sandy Point...Akey began noticing she was being led to a village wagon, tied to two strange-looking animals Akey had never seen before." I'm in chapter 6.
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