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This story is about a slave named Sarny she is also associated with Nightjohn. Sarny as any other normal slave she is no educated and she is still considered a small child due to her lack of intelligence. Sarny is not to fond of her master she dislikes him because he is a cruel person and pushes his slaves to the edge of death. During her free time which is almost never given she lay's down is the corn field trying to remember his past life but she was never able to remember her mother because she was taken away from her when she was a baby.
Then Sarny started talking about her first encounter with money. She found a penny in front of the masters house and she showed is to her mammy (Not birth mammy). And when she her mammy saw the penny she told Sarny to hide is where no one could find it except for herself. "Slaves like us don't get paid so when you find money save up so maybe one day you could buy your freedom." So Sarny did so and she still has the penny years later. So every day she digs the penny back up after everyone is asleep and she rubes the penny until it shines once again.Since Sarny is not strong or old enough to work the fields she helps take care of all the babies in a small shack not that far away from the masters house. Since she does not have such a labor intensive job she gets a lot more free time to herself where she likes to think about past memories. And the main memory that she was thinking about was when she first met Nightjohn. It was a normal day for Sarny until she saw a man naked with a chain around his neck being taking into the corn field. Sarny did not learn that his name was Nightjohn until later that night. Unlike Sarny Nightjohn is considered a smart he knows how to read and knows basic education. Nightjohn even made a trade with Sarny one pinch of tobacco for three letters he would teach her A,B,C.
P.S I meant to spell mammy like that because that is how she spelled it the book.
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