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But it was inconvenient to make the trip until the following morning . Besides , he had important business to do for Sam . He had sent two of the servants , whom he had emancipated , to Liberia , and he planned the same journey for Sam . He engaged a reservation for him on a steamer sailing for Africa , and returned to the hotel at nine o'clock ready to leave for Fort Hamilton . He was compelled to wait for Sam 's return from the boarding house for colored people on Water Street where he had been sent by the proprietor of the Astor . Not even negro servants were quartered in a first-class hotel in New York or any other Northern city . Sam arrived at half-past nine , and the Colonel strolled down Broadway with him to the little park at Bowling Green .