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Thursday, December 10, 2009 - Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM

Sunset at the dam, Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM, December 10, 2009
Sunset at the dam, Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM, December 10, 2009

This was a nice quiet day, much of it spent working at straightening out the mess over at Clippings and Collectanea. I made some headway but there sure is a lot to do to get those pages in order. What a mess!

Night camp

Site 42 - Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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