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Artemus Ward Encounters the Octoroon

Ward, Artemus. "Artemus Ward Encounters the Octoroon." New-York Saturday Press. 14 Jul. 1860: 4.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
short fiction
Abstract: 

Artemus Ward comes across an old gentleman who tells him about the misfortune of the octoroon, a person who is 1/8 black, he travels with. Ward gives the young girl fifty dollars and learns later that he was swindled.

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