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| 50 | 418 | But what then could be the View more quotes about real">real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post. |
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| 50 | 415 | Yes, I thought, they are beautiful, but I did not think them that extraordinary, or different. |
| 50 | 416 | I had seen many slaves in Tarncamp, and particularly in Shipcamp, where I had been housed, which seemed to me their equals, if not superiors. |
| 50 | 417 | If that were the case, I thought, there must be more involved than what was circulated in the rumors, rumors perhaps deliberately circulated, in the camps. |
| 50 | 418 | But what then could be the real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post. |
| 50 | 419 | The third guard, the interior guard, then lowered the two closing beams into their brackets. |
| 50 | 420 | As the beams were heavy their lifting and lowering was managed by a system of counterweights. |
| 50 | 421 | I also noted that there was an arrangement for chaining them in place, which chaining might be secured by a massive padlock. |