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Melissa Coates Ridgeway was obsessed with Cora because her mother had also escaped and he was unable to track her down. That particular notice wasn't meant as a literal notice. Cora was a slave according to the laws of men (legal), but not by the laws of nature (rightful).
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by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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