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Why did William grimes run away the first time?

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At age ten, Grimes is sold to Col. William Thornton and taken to Montpelier plantation in Culpepper, Virginia, where the other slaves regard him jealously because he is a house slave. They sabotage his work, hoping that one of their family members will replace him in the house.

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