. 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 . n, and I tookmy axe and chopped him in two. Itwas a poplar leaf moccasin, the poison-est kind of a snake we have. Whilein the woods all my thoughts washow to get away to a free country.■ Subsequently, in going back over his past
. 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 . n, and I tookmy axe and chopped him in two. Itwas a poplar leaf moccasin, the poison-est kind of a snake we have. Whilein the woods all my thoughts washow to get away to a free country.■ Subsequently, in going back over his past history, he referred to the fact,that on an occasion long before the cave and tree existence, already noticed,when suffering under this brutal master, he sought protection in the woodsand abode twenty-seven months in a cave, before he surrendered himself, orwas captured. His offence, in this instance, was simply because he desiredto 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 hundred lashes, and to shoot him;in order to avoid this punishment, he escaped to the woods, etc. The lapseof a dozen years and recent struggles for an existence, made him thinklightly of his former troubles and he would, doubtless, have failed to recall. ARRIVAL FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1857. 425 his earlier conflicts but for the desire inauifesteJ by the Gotnmittee to getall the infonuatiou out of him they could.
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