at became of Annie and some of the other persons

ily, and never went without taking Tidy, that the child and her mot

and "brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to the yearly sacrifice," down to the present time. Nothing pleases them more than to provide things useful and pretty for their little ones. Even this slave-mother, with her scanty means, felt this same longing. It did her heart good to be doing something for her child; and so she was constantly planning and preparing for these visits, that she might never be without something new and gratifying to give her. In the warm days of summer,

oney. You dun know noffi

s master, was very close in all his business transactions, never allowing, as he remarked, his left hand to know what his right hand did. He stole Tidy away, as we have already told you, f

row. They would moan and wail and make such a f

man, wa

bargain was made without the knowledge of any one on the estate; and in the night they were tr

was told of it, the poor, decrepit old woman fell from her chair upon the floor of her cabin insensible. The people lifted her up and laid her upon the

of it even now without tears. But she comforts herself by saying, "I shall meet them in heaven." Annie may not yet have arrived at that blessed home; but Marcia has rej

marked each s

ed every s

long age of b

children s

good things in this life; and now that he had come to the gates of death, he found himself in a sadly destitute and lamentable condition. He was afraid to die; and when he came to the very last, his shrieks of terror a

not bear them. Don't let them put on those chains. Oh, I ca

w-creatures with chains and fetters was now in the grasp of One mightier than he, who

ful was s

get to heaven, than to have all the riches of all the slaveholders in the world, gained by injustice and oppression; for I