. The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road . dhad a commendable share of courage and intellect. He could recommend nogood traits as his masters. Henry Dunmore had served as a slave up to the age of thirty-five, andwas then on the eve of being sold. As he had endured severe
. The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road . dhad a commendable share of courage and intellect. He could recommend nogood traits as his masters. Henry Dunmore had served as a slave up to the age of thirty-five, andwas then on the eve of being sold. As he had endured severe hardshipunder his old master John Maldon he was unwilling to try another. Whilehe gave Maldon credit for being a member of the Methodist Church, hecharged him with treating himself in a most unchristian-like manner. Hetestified that Maldon did not allow him half enough to eat; and once hekept him out in the cold until his toes were frozen off. Consequently it wasnot in the heart of Henry to give his master any other than a bad lived about sixteen miles from Elkton, near Charleston, Maryland. Hewas of a dark chestnut color, well-made, and active. CROSSING THE BAY IN A BATTEAU. SHARP CONTEST WITH PURSUERS ON WATER. FUGITIVES VICTORIOUS. Thomas Sipple, and his wife, Mary Ann, Henry Burkett, andElizabeth, his wife, John Purnell, and Hale Burton. This party. were slaves, living near Kunkletown, in Worcester county, Maryland, andhad become restive in their fetters. Although they did not know a letter CEOSSINO THE BAY IN A BATTEAU. 529 of the alphabet, they were fully persuaded that they were entitled to theirfreedom. In considering what way would be safest for them to adopt,they concluded that the water would be less dangerous than any other the matter of freedom had been in their minds for a long time, theyhad frequently counted the cost, and had been laying by trifling sums ofmoney which had fallen perchance into their hands. Among them all theyhad about thirty dol
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