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| 22 | 183 | Each flag, too, had its letter or number. |
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| 22 | 180 | There was a lot number on her View more quotes about left">left breast. |
| 22 | 181 | The dancing circles were some ten or twelve feet in diameter, and sanded, and near the fires. |
| 22 | 182 | There were several such circles in the camp, each with its flag on a wand at one edge of the circle, each flag being of a given shape, square, rectangular, forked, triangular, and so on, and color or mixture of colors. |
| 22 | 183 | Each flag, too, had its letter or number. |
| 22 | 184 | Thus each circle could be recognized by both its flag and its letter or number. |
| 22 | 185 | An order then might be issued that slaves of such and such lot numbers, which numbers were inscribed on their bodies, on the left breast, given to them for the convenience of the camp, should go to, say, circle such-and-such, which was, say, "square and blue" or "triangular and yellow," and so on. |
| 22 | 186 | This was judicious as many slaves were illiterate, and are deliberately kept so. |