... was not a slave, he became mixed in with slaves filtering in from older slave regions. These slaves were slaves whom were being sold to the newer, cotton producing slave regions. A man by the name of James H. Burch, a slave dealer in Washington, claimed to be Northup's owner after stripping Northup of his free papers while Northup was traveling with a circus company, playing ... the first appearance of the cotton the first hoeing takes place. Four rounds of hoeing occurred in all lasting until about the first of July. This is when the use of an individual performance scale was first rep...

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