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Amos Fortunes friends used to call him Mr. Fortunatus because he had had a good fortune in being well treated. In time the name was formalized to Fortune. He knew that when Mr. Copeland (hus very first master) no onger was his master and Amos was free, that he would stand before the world as Amos Fortune, Free Man

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