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“In those first days after Henry bought Alice, the patrollers would haul her back to Henry’s plantation, waking him and Caldonia …Come down here and find out about your property’...Henry would come down [and help] …Alice up…[then] sprawled …in the dirt after [the patrollers] had run her back…The patrollers would…ride away [decrying] among themselves…This is what happens when you give niggers the same right as a white man….” (pp. 12-13)