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match each term with its definition or description
vernacular
using tricks, lies, or dishonesty in order
to gain something
purgatory
in a language common to an area or
people, not a scholarly language
dante

to gain for oneself, to obtain
machiavellian
writer of the divine comedy
acquire
a place where a soul must wait until it is
ready to enter heaven
done

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the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.