“He come into some money and bought his own freedom. He cost a fortune, but his massa have a gamble debt, so he only pay five hundred dollars for hisself. And he still have money after that to buy a house at 20 Bull Street. It sit three blocks from where the governor live.” “How’d he get all this money?” “Won it in the East Bay Street lottery.” I laughed out loud. “That’s what he told you? Well, I reckon this is the luckiest slave that ever lived.” “It happen ten years ago, everybody know ’bout it. He buy a ticket, and his number come up. It happen.”
