Having escaped to freedom, Charles Ball was kidnapped from his small Maryland farm and put to work by a plantation owner in Georgia. The planter, it turned out, was the brother of Ball's former mistress. At first, Ball assumed that his new master had taken him lawfully under the authority of his sister. However, later he was informed by fellow slaves that his former mistress had remarried and moved to Louisiana 15 years earlier. His current master had no claims to him under the law.
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