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A gambling and slave tale set on a Mississippi steamboat before the US Civil War. A gambler's sale of a negro slave and her son by raffle ends happily when chances bought for her by kindly Pennsylvanians win their freedom. Purportedly recorded by a German traveller. (PB)
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