Chicken George Timeline and Summary

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• Chicken George becomes a gamecocker in his youth.
• He marries Matilda and they have a bunch of children.
• They start saving for freedom.
• George gambles their savings away on a cockfight, leading him to be sent to England for three years.
• He returns and finds his family sold, though he is able to obtain his own freedom.
• He's forced to leave the family again because free black men aren't allowed in the area.
• He returns after the Civil War and leads the family to Henning, Tennessee, where they settle down.