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The whites, north and south, played a game, and made the black people their stakes.
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This metaphor illustrates the exploitation of Black people by both northern and southern whites during the slavery era.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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