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Mr. Waterford must be quite a rich man, because he buys thirty-four other servants too. However, he soon leaves, and a much less pleasant man named Gripes introduces himself.

“I know who you are,” Gripes begins. “You are the rotten scum of England. They didn’t want you, so they sent you over here. Well listen carefully. We can’t send you back, so do you know what we’ll do if we don’t like you?” Gripes pauses, and all thirty-five of you stare in silence. “We’ll whip you, beat you, and put you in the stocks until the sun has burned your skin to blisters. So line up, and I don’t want to hear a peep until we get to the Waterford Plantation, Crescent Grove.” You’re starting to wonder if it would have been better in Maryland.


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