. 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 . nd I tookmv axe and chopped him in two. Itwas a poplar leaf moccasin, the j)oison-est kind of a snake we have. AVhilcin the woods all my thoughts washow to get away to a free , in going back over his past history, ho referred to the fiict,that on an occasion long before the cave and tree existence, already noticed,when suffering under this brutal master, he sought protection in tiie
. 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 . nd I tookmv axe and chopped him in two. Itwas a poplar leaf moccasin, the j)oison-est kind of a snake we have. AVhilcin the woods all my thoughts washow to get away to a free , in going back over his past history, ho referred to the fiict,that on an occasion long before the cave and tree existence, already noticed,when suffering under this brutal master, he sought protection in tiie woodsand ai^ode twenty-seven months in a cave, before he surrendered himself, orwas captured. His offence, in this instance, was simply because he desu-edto see his wife, and stole away from his masters plantation and went adistance of five miles, to where she lived, to see her. For this grave crimehis master threatened to give him a iiundred lashes, and to shoot hmi;in order to avoid this ], he escaped to the woods, etc. The lapseof a dozen years and recent struggles fi)r an existence, made him thmklightly of his former troubles and he would, doubtless, have failed to recall. ARRIVAL FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1857. 425 his earlier conflicts hut for the desire manifested by the Committee to getall the information out of him they could.
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