Twelve Years A Slave (English, e-book, 1:00)
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (US South) US African AmericanTranscript
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Chapter 13 on my arrival at Master EPPS. In obedience to his order, the first business upon which I entered was the making of an ax Hale. The handles in used, there are simply a round straight stick. I made a crooked one shaped like those to which I had been accustomed to at the North. When finished and presented to EPPS, he looked at it with astonishment, unable to determine exactly what it was. He had never foreseen such a handle. And when I explained its conveniences, he was forcibly struck with the novelty of the idea. He kept it in the house a long time and when his friend called was wont to exhibit it as a curiosity. It was now the season of hoeing, I was first sent to the corn field and afterwards set to scraping cotton. In this employment. I remained until holding time was nearly passed. When I began to experience the symptoms of approaching illness.