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chapter 3
The wagon moves along in the hot sun past field of cotton and the children parched.The wagon stops by a riverto refill the driver's jug.Julilly sees a white man chopping wood near by with a black boy helping him and tells him to get water for everyone.The fat man returns, denounces the white man as a Quaker Abolitionist and the black boy as the "free nigger boy" -
chapter 1
June lilly 12 years old lives on massa hensions plantation.She lives alone with her mother in virginia.Missy hensens husband,jeb hensenwas old and sick,in a hospital in richmond and their land had no more life in it.Mammy sally tells june lilly about the slave trader.Mammy sally tells the secret about canada where slavary is outlawed. -
chapter 2
Everyone wakes up at 4:00 AM.Mammy sally is worried about getting seperated from each other.All the slaves are told to stand in a line.A man with a whip strides back and forth ; took willie, a 2 year old boy from his mother's arm and put him in the wagon.He examined julilly and told her to get in the wagon.More children were sent to the wagon and 3 men were told to line up behind the wagon: Ben ,Adam and Lester.Massa and Missy hensens are no longer in their house