. The underground rail road [electronic resource]: 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 . took his knife and stuck itinto him in many places ; after he done him that way, he put him into thebarn to shucking corn. For a long time he was not able to work; when hedid partly recover, he was set to w
. The underground rail road [electronic resource]: 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 . took his knife and stuck itinto him in many places ; after he done him that way, he put him into thebarn to shucking corn. For a long time he was not able to work; when hedid partly recover, he was set to work again. We ceased to record anvthing further concerning liiehmond, althoughnot a fourth part of what Harry narrated was put upon paper. Theaccount was too sickening and thedesire to hear Harrys account ofhimself too great to admit of fur-ther delay; so Harry confined him-self to the sufferings and adventureswhich had marked his own he gave the following facts:I have been treated bad. One davwe were grubbing and master saidwe didnt do work enough. Howcame there was no more work donethat day? said master to me. Itold hiin I did work. In a moreStormy manner he pented the ques-tion. I then spoke up and said:Massi, I dont know what to sawAt once ma>sa plunged his knife intomy neck causing me to was drunk. lie then droveme down to the black folks house- 1. - ^ / mi
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