Chapter 25

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25 EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL BY TRINITY GIDDINGS Liverpool, England, December, 1863. Want to see the stupidest critter God ever made? Turn your gaze on this child. I arrived back at Lady Alice’s house fitten to scream in frustration, though, in truth, I should never have gotten my hopes up. Josiah and I lately attended the offices of Little Big Man in the Custom House, and then Thomas Haines Dudley at the US Consulate. We’d acquainted each with the intelligence delivered by that Jigsaw-man and the evidence from the Sheffield foundry where those iron bolts done been made. Never trusted that shrimpy politician since I saw him pandering to the Confederate supporters at that garden party. My distrust proved well-founded. Little Big Man refused outright to take any action aft

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