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behaved, and he might have carried the day, for Maryland society in 1720 allowed little sympathy for runaway ser­v “Let us suppose that a slave runs away from this plantation. Every citizen must, on pain of going to jail, assist the marshal in capturing the runaway, or arrest­ing the freedman, if the marshal orders him. grown inured to injustice, it galled him to realize that his son was doomed to an endless repetition of such unfairness.

“Canniest birds in the world. Any incipient compassion Turlock may have held for the Quakers vanished that afternoon when a deplorable scene took place at the harbor. ” “Even to cities like Boston?” “Everywhere. Midnight struck, and two and four, and the ship lay sleeping at the wharf.