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ally he ended up in America to work in the fields until the day he was able to buy his sons' freedom too. Ironically Smith thought of his sons as his slaves as well. When one of his sons chose to join a whaling expedition and died aboard ship Smith states, "'In my son, besides the loss of his life, I lost equal to seventy-five pounds'" (Steiner, p. 75), referring to the amount he had paid to secure his son's freedom. Smith also purchased a

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