All of which my wife is to have the benefit of during her natural life & at her death, Mingo and his wife to be valued together by my Exec's hereafter to be named and if Mingo and Sarah choose any of my four Legatees as a master, to wit . . . .
"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Slaves being allowed to choose new masters (to choose among legatees): was this at all common?
All of which my wife is to have the benefit of during her natural life & at her death, Mingo and his wife to be valued together by my Exec's hereafter to be named and if Mingo and Sarah choose any of my four Legatees as a master, to wit . . . .
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