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Orange Jacobs: “I told them in the jargon, or Esperanto, that they had paid the debt they owed to the whites and that they were free to…”

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I told them in the jargon, or Esperanto, that they had paid the debt they owed to the whites and that they were free to go to their homes to see their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters and friends.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Orange Jacobs communicates to a group that they are free to return home after serving their time.

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