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You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet... your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?

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