ENG 250W Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Chaps
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Cassy, emmeline, and madame de thoux travel to montreal, where. George works in a machinist"s shop, and eliza has given birth to a second child, a daughter. Madame de thoux"s husband has recently died and left her a great fortune, which she offers to the family. From canada, they sail to france, where they live for a few years before returning to the united states. George advocates the immigration of blacks to liberia, a west african nation founded by private organizations and the u. s. government in order to resettle freed slaves. George and his family immigrate to liberia and are not heard from again. When george shelby returns home he tells chloe about tom. George shelby gives free papers to all of the slaves. They ask him not to send them away he tells them that he will pay them wages, and that when he dies they will be free.
