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No Offense 01' drinking gourd 'you my witness tonight an you don't have to holler back moan or amen none neither just keep on shining, an blinking an listening. Now, I ain't a perfect man. Don't reckon I know none black or white, but I don't know how to bring offense to a man who ask me to his lodge an leave one a his wives to pleasure me while he stand guard out front. Capt. Clark an his men say it wrong, but them say nothing when they stumbles drunk to the slave quarters, back in Kentucke an have they way with any girl child or woman they find, whether she be married or not. Them want me to be shamed but I can't find fault with a man who think so much a me he want his wife to hold my seed. ...

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