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Quotation from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“No! no! no! my soul an’t yours, Mas’r! You haven’t bought it,—ye can’t buy it! It’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it”
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XXXIII (Project Gutenberg #203)
Beaten for refusing to flog a fellow slave, Tom answers Legree's claim that he owns him body and soul.
Citation: "No! no! no! my soul an’t yours, Mas’r! You haven’t bought it,—ye can’t buy it! It’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it" — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XXXIII (Project Gutenberg #203). (id uncle-toms-cabin-q5)
Portrait: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Public domain.
