Death Rattle (2010)
“Hezekiah Christmas explained. “But that country didn’t suit me so much. Folks there … they didn’t take to no freedman so good.”
“What’d you do?” Scratch asked. “Where’d you go when you found things weren’t so hospitable for you west of Owensboro?”
Hezekiah told how he crossed the Ohio, turning his nose east, pushing farther and farther north. He made a few pennies when and where people would pay him for his work. And when he no longer had any money to pay for his keep, or no white man would off...er him his keep in exchange for a little work, Hezekiah slept out in the forest, or here and there stole a chicken and other victuals to fill his gnawing belly as he kept on searching for that place where folks would no longer regard him as nothing more than an ex-slave, not even so much as a freedman … a land where they would regard him only as a man.
“Never heard of New London,” Bass said after Hezekiah had explained how he made his way all the way to that seaside town in Connecticut.MoreLess
“What’d you do?” Scratch asked. “Where’d you go when you found things weren’t so hospitable for you west of Owensboro?”
Hezekiah told how he crossed the Ohio, turning his nose east, pushing farther and farther north. He made a few pennies when and where people would pay him for his work. And when he no longer had any money to pay for his keep, or no white man would off...er him his keep in exchange for a little work, Hezekiah slept out in the forest, or here and there stole a chicken and other victuals to fill his gnawing belly as he kept on searching for that place where folks would no longer regard him as nothing more than an ex-slave, not even so much as a freedman … a land where they would regard him only as a man.
“Never heard of New London,” Bass said after Hezekiah had explained how he made his way all the way to that seaside town in Connecticut.MoreLess
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