Twelve Years a Slave, Chapter 2 summary

What happens

1. Two strangers offer the narrator paid musical work, and he leaves Saratoga without notifying Anne.
2. After one performance in Albany, Brown and Hamilton persuade him in New York to continue to Washington.
3. They help him obtain papers proving his freedom, then accompany him south and pay him forty-three dollars in Washington.
4. He watches Harrison’s funeral with them and becomes severely ill toward evening after drinking liquor.
5. Unidentified people offer to take him to a doctor, and he loses consciousness after following them outside.
6. He wakes shackled in darkness, discovers his money and papers missing, and begins to suspect kidnapping.

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