Those that survived the journey would be sold to the plantation owners of the Caribbean and South and North America before the ships returned to the UK on the last leg of their journey carrying slave-produced goods such as coffee, tobacco, cotton and sugar cane.

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Two days later, outside the Northwest Folklife Festival in the city centre, a man carrying a book was shot in the leg by stray gunfire.

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When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up to the top carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.

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Carrying them, one policeman or military force official on each leg, each arm.

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She started competing in able-bodied riding at an early age, looping the reins around her good fingers and carrying two whips instead of one to help guide the horse and compensate for her lack of leg function.

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