"two hundred head o' nigger"

[Wilson Gray]

Hmm. Oddly reminiscent of the iconic

"two hundred head of EM"

under the command of a mere corporal that was I-once-saw by any number of
barracks-mates, back in the day of the old black-boot Army. Kinda makes you
wonder whether the number was ever actually "two hundred," even back in the
day of the United States Colored Troops.

Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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