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Death of Mau-mau Bett
Mau-mau Bett collapses with palsy while preparing to bake bread and dies within hours, leaving the nearly blind, lame Bomefree to grope his way to her body in the cellar—alone in the world.
Mau-mau Bett's sudden deathBomefree left destitute and aloneOld age without support under slavery