In hottest summer and coldest winter, I was kept almost naked—no shoes, no stockings, no jacket, no trousers, nothing on but a coarse tow linen shirt, reaching only to my knees.
From his autobiography, this passage vividly describes the extreme physical deprivation he endured as a child slave.
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