. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom . himself the trouble to send all the way to Philadelphia tore-capture his boy Tucker White, and with regard to giving informationor assistance, I know of but one or two men in this city who would bemean enough to stoop to do such dirty work. Geo. F. Albert!, a notoriouskidnapper, and E. D. Ingraham, equally as notorious as a counsel of slave-hunters whom everybody here despises, might have served you in
. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom . himself the trouble to send all the way to Philadelphia tore-capture his boy Tucker White, and with regard to giving informationor assistance, I know of but one or two men in this city who would bemean enough to stoop to do such dirty work. Geo. F. Albert!, a notoriouskidnapper, and E. D. Ingraham, equally as notorious as a counsel of slave-hunters whom everybody here despises, might have served you in this mat-ter. I know no others to recommend; if anybody can find the boy, theycan. But should they find him they will be obliged to take legal steps inarresting him before they can proceed. In such a case, instead of assistingMajor Roney, I should feel bound to assist Tucker White by throwing everyobstacle that I possibly could in the way of his being carried back to Vir-ginia ; and to close the matter I wish it to be understood that I do not de-sire to hold any further correspondence with jNIajor Roney, of Dinwiddie,Virginia, about his boy, Tucker White. 558 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK. MARY MILLBURN, alias LOUISA F. JONES, ESCAPED IN MALE ATTIRE. Neither in personal appearance,manners, nor language, were anytraces of the Peculiar Institutionvisible in Mary Millburn. Onthe contrary, she represented ayoung lady, with ii passable edu-cation, and very refined in herdeportment. She had eaten thewhite bread of Slavery, underthe Misses Chapman, and theyhad been singularly kind to her,taking special pains with her inregard to the company she shouldkeep, a point important to younggirls, so liable to exposure as werethe unprotected young females ofthe South. She being naturally of a happy disposition, obliging, competent,there was but little room for any jars in the household, so far as Mary -wasconcerned. Notwithstanding all this, she was not satisfied; Slavery in
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