Death of Bomefree

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After the two elderly freed slaves assigned to tend him die first, Bomefree is found frozen and stiff on his pallet—and John Ardinburgh's promised 'good funeral' amounts to black paint for the coffin and a jug of ardent spirits.

Bomefree's death from neglect and exposureCaesar and Betsy's conditional freedomThe mockery of a 'good funeral'

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