re.-Again betrayed, and taken by a mob; ironed and impri

ney before named, and started

room, there was but one other person in the house with my mother, and this was a little slave girl who was asleep when I entered. The impulsive feeling which is ever ready to act itself out at the return of a long absent friend, was more than my bereaved mother could suppress. And unfortunately for me, the loud shouts of joy at that late hour of the night, awakened the little slave girl, who afterwards betrayed me. She kept perfectly still, an

use, with dogs following them. This strange movement frightened me off again, and I never returned until after midnight, at which time I slipped up to the window, and rapped for my mother, who sprang to it and informed me that I was betrayed by the girl who overheard our conversation the night before. She though

nces. Thank God he is now free from slavery, and is doing well. He was a messenger for me to my wife and mother, unt

s true, and she got him to conceal me in a barn, not over two miles from the village. This man brought provisions to me, sent by my mother, and w

mother and wife, and we had set up nearly all night plotting to start on the next Saturday night. I hid myself away in the flax in the barn, and being much rest broken I slept until the next morning about 9

xclaiming at the top of their voices, "shoot him down! shoo

nt that I had been betrayed by a slave, and all my flattering prospects of rescuing my family w

ing done, after they had laid violent hands on me, was to bind

o me, many of this mob were members of the M.E. Church, and they were the persons who took away my church ticket, and then robbed me also of fourteen dollars in cash, a silver watch for which I paid ten dollars, a pocket knife f

mbs bound with heavy irons, and then had my body locked within the cold

uestions. Some were rejoicing-some swearing, and others saying that I ought to be hung; while others were in favor of sending both me and my wife to New Orleans. They supposed that I had informed her all ab

sed by my repeated adventures to rescue her and my little daughter from the grasp of slavery, it was more than she could bear without bursting in tears. She plead for admission into the cold dungeon where I was confined,

us forms-I have mingled my sorrows with those that were bereaved by the ungodly soul drivers-and I also know what it is to shed the sympathetic te

getting there. They knew that I had travelled over the road, and they were determined to run away and go where they could be free. I of course took great pleasure in giving them directions how and

with loaded rifles, one of whom led the horse upon which I rode. My wife and child were set upon another nag. After we were all ready to start my old master thought I was not quite safe enou

flesh market. No tongue could express the deep anguish of my soul when I saw the silent tear drops streaming down the sabl

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nd skittish. A carriage passing by jammed against the nag, which caused him to break from the man who was leading him, and in his fright throw me off backwards. My hands being confined with irons, and my feet tied under the horse with a rope, I

ive dollars for me. It was thought by all that I was dead and would never come to life again. When the horse was c

n my deplorable condition, and contempt for

to jail, wherein I was locked with handcuffs yet on. A physician was then sent

st disagreeable kind; but there were bed-bugs, fleas, lice and musquitoes in abundance, to contend with. At night we had to lie down on the floo

in the New Orleans slave market. He was buying up slaves to take to New Orleans. So he took me and my little family to t

into cells wherein prisoners were locked up after night. The upper apartments were occupied by females, principally. This prison was enclosed by a

was shocked at the horrid sight of the prisoners on entering the yard. When the large iron gate or door was thrown open to receive us, i

ent, made me think of hell, with all its terrors of torment; such as "weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth," which was then the idea that I had of the

ind almost every variety of character to look on. Some singing, some crying, some praying, and others swearing. The people of color who were in there were slaves, there without crime, but for safe keeping, while the whites were some of the most abandoned characters living. The k

to eat it, or go without any at all. It was all spread out on a long table in separate plates; and at the sound of a bell, every one would take h

ked up in a small cell until the next morning after sunrise. The prisoners were locked in, two toget