![]() ![]() They’ve been fined, you know, paid millions in these fines, for treatment violations, but you. ![]() ![]() And now this mine, I’ve been looking, Father, and this mine has been sanctioned half a dozen times by the LPB. Her owner employs overseers, sir, of the cruelest stripe, from one of these services, you know, private contractors. The conditions are of the utmost privation. “Gentle is at a strip mine in western Carolina, sir. I held myself steady and let my eyes bore into the priest’s. One of the cops, the white one, thick-necked and pink skinned, reared back and slapped the table, cracking up at something his black partner had said. I-” I stopped, blinking away tears, gathering my dignity. She is thirty-three years old, thirty-three, thirty-four. “Yes,” said Father Barton, grimacing, shaking his head. It’s my wife, sir, my wife. I have searched for years to find her, and I’ve found her. ![]() I got my high-school equivalency and I’m working, sir, a good job, and I’m in no kind of trouble. I have my papers, my papers are in order. “Manumitted fourteen years ago, thanks to the good Lord in Heaven and my master’s merciful will and testament. Just-I am a free man, as you see, sir, legally so,” I said, then charging on before he could interrupt. ![]()
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