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Aesop's Fables, The Blackamoor summary

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In The Blackamoor, a man buys an Ethiopian slave and wrongly thinks his black skin results from neglect by his previous owner. He scrubs him with soap and hot water, but the treatment leaves his skin unchanged and nearly kills him through a cold he catches.

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  1. A man buys an Ethiopian slave whose skin is black.
  2. The new master mistakes the man's skin color for a result of neglect by his previous owner.
  3. He scrubs the enslaved man hard with soap and hot water, but his skin color does not change.
  4. The enslaved man catches a cold and nearly dies.

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