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Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT

Camped at Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT, April 25, 2011
Camped at Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT, April 25, 2011

Devil's Canyon Campground is a new US Forest Service campground about midway between Blanding and Monticello UT. There are no services available at the sites.

Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT

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Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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