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The American Joe Miller

by Robert Kempt

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Verdict of a Negro Jury — 338

“We, the undersigned, being a Kurnet’s Juray to sit on de body of de nigger Sambo, now dead and gone before us, hab been sittin’ on de said nigger aforesaid, did on de night of de fusteenth of November, come to def by falling from de bridge ober the riber in de said riber, whar we find he was subsequently drowned, and afterwards washed on the riber side, whar we s’pose he was frose to death.”

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