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Four men composed the group. One was lying upon a pallet, asleep yet restless. A black velvet cap had Slipped from his head, giving freedom to thick black hair tinged with white. Starting from the temples, a beard with scarce a suggestion of gray swept in dark waves upon the neck and throat, and ever: invaded the pillow. Between the hair and beard there was a narrow margin of sallow flesh for features somewhat crowded by knots of wrinkle. His body was wrapped in a loose woolen gown of brownish-black. A hand apparently all bone, rested upon the breast, clutching a fold Of the gown. The feet twitched nervously in the loosened thongs of old-fashioned san dals. Glancing at the others of the group, it was plain this Sleeper was master and they his slaves. Two of them were stretched on the bare boards at the lower end of the pallet, and they were White. The third was a son Of Ethiopia of unmixed blood and gigantic frame. He Sat at the left of the couch, cross-legged, and, like the rest, was in a doze; now and then, however, he raised his head and, without fully opening his eyes, shook a fan of peacock feathers from head to foot over the recumbent figure. The two whites were clad in gowns of coarse linen belted to their waists; While, saving a cincture around his loins, the negro was naked.
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Four men composed the group. One was lying upon a pallet, asleep yet restless. A black velvet cap had Slipped from his head, giving freedom to thick black hair tinged with white. Starting from the temples, a beard with scarce a suggestion of gray swept in dark waves upon the neck and throat, and ever: invaded the pillow. Between the hair and beard there was a narrow margin of sallow flesh for features somewhat crowded by knots of wrinkle. His body was wrapped in a loose woolen gown of brownish-black. A hand apparently all bone, rested upon the breast, clutching a fold Of the gown. The feet twitched nervously in the loosened thongs of old-fashioned san dals. Glancing at the others of the group, it was plain this Sleeper was master and they his slaves. Two of them were stretched on the bare boards at the lower end of the pallet, and they were White. The third was a son Of Ethiopia of unmixed blood and gigantic frame. He Sat at the left of the couch, cross-legged, and, like the rest, was in a doze; now and then, however, he raised his head and, without fully opening his eyes, shook a fan of peacock feathers from head to foot over the recumbent figure. The two whites were clad in gowns of coarse linen belted to their waists; While, saving a cincture around his loins, the negro was naked.
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Lewis "Lew" Wallace (1827 - 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." Wallace's military career included service in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was appointed Indiana's adjutant general and commanded the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment. Wallace, who attained the rank of major general, participated in the Battle of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Monocacy. He also served on the military commission for the trials of the Lincoln assassination conspirators and presided over the trial of Henry Wirz, the Confederate commandant of the Andersonville prison camp. Wallace resigned from the U.S. Army in November 1865 and briefly served as a major general in the Mexican army, before returning to the United States. Wallace was appointed governor of the New Mexico Territory (1878-81) and served as U.S. minister to the Ottoman Empire (1881-85). Wallace retired to his home in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he continued to write until his death in 1905.
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