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that
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wheel,when one of the men pulledout a sword (I
think it was a sword,I never saw one) ,
and threatened
to cut Miller's arm off. Pollock's wagon
selves.
About a month afterwards, bacik to Baltimore. I livedwith Madame C. about
six months.
being in the way, and he refusing get out of
"
There were sixslaves came in the vessel with
the road,we turned offto the left. After we rode me to Baltimore,who belonged to Mr. D., and
away,
one of the men tore a hole in the back of were returned because they were sickly.
were coming
" A man called to see me at the jailafter I
the carriage, to look out to see if they
after us, and they said theywished they had
givenMiller and Pollock a blow.
" We stopped at a tavern near the railroad, I told the landlord (I think it was) that I was free.
I also told several persons
at the car-office ; and a
man at the car-office was talkingslave. Afterwards some gentlemencalled on me
very nice-looking
at the door,and he said he though that they had
better take me back again. One of the men did
the same evening, I was taken to jail.
" The next morning, a man with largelightcolored
whiskers took me
away by myself, and
asked me if I was not Mr. Schoolfield'sslave. I
told him I was not ; he said that I was, and that
if I did not say I was he would '
cowhide me and
salt me, and put me in a dungeon.' I told him
I was free,and that I would say nothingbut the
truth."
Mary E. Parker
'sNarrative.
"
I was taken from Matthew Donnelly's
Saturday
night(Dec.Gth,or 13th,1851);was caught
whilst out of doors șoon afterI had cleared the
o'clock,
and
was kept until Sundaynight
when I leftthere in the cars for Baltimore,and
arrived there early on Monday morning.
" At Elkton a man was brought in to see me,
by one of the men, who said that I was not his
father's slave. Afterwards,when on the way to
Baltimore in the cars, a man told me that I must
me.
"
On Monday morning,Mr. Schoolfieldcalled
at the jail in Baltimore to see me ; and on Tuesday
CHAPTER IX.
morninghe broughthis wife and severalother
ladiesto see me. I told them I did not know
theni, and then Mr. C. took me out of the SLAVES AS THEY ARE, ON TESTIMONY OP
room,
and told me who theywere, and took me back
OWNERS.
again șo that I might appear to know them. On
the nest Monday I was shippedto New Orleans. The investigation into the actual condition
"
It took about a month to getto New Orleans. of the slave population
the South
After I had been there about a week, Mr. C. sold is beset with
me to Madame C, who many difficultiesṠo
keeps many
a largeflower-garden.
She sends flowers to sell to the thingsare said
theatres,
pro and con.
"
many
sells milk in market,"c. I went out to sell said in one connection and deniedin another,
candy and flowersforher,when I lived with her.
the effectis very confusing.
One evening, when I was cominghome from the
Thus,we are told that the state of the
theatre,a watchman took me up,
and I told him
I was not a slave. He put me in the slavesis one of blissful contentment
calaboose,
; that
and next morning took me before a magistrate, theywould not take freedom as a gift;
who sent for Madame C. ,
who told him she boughtthat theirfamilyrelationsare onlynow and
me. He then sent for Mr. C, and. told him he then invaded;that theyare a stupidrace,
must account for how he gotme. Mr. C. said that
came back to Baltimore,and told me that I must
say I was Mr. Schoolfield'slave, and that ifI did
not do it he would killme the firsttime he got a
chance. He said Rachel [hersister]saidshe
came from Baltimore and was Mr. Schoolfield's
[JudgeCampbell and JudgeBell, of Philadelphia,
and William H. Norris,Esq., of Baltimore], and
I told them I was Mr. Schoolfield'sslave. "They
said they were my friends,and I must tell them
not come further than the tavern. I was taken to
Baltimore,where we arrived about seven o'clock
the truth. I then told them who I was, and all
about it.
" When I was in New Orleans Mr. C. whipped
me because I said that I was free."
Elizabeth,by her own account above,was seized
and taken from Pennsylvania, Dec. Gth or 13th,
1851,which is confirmed by other testimony.
It is conceded that such cases, when
brought into Southern courts,are
tried with great fairnessand
generally
impartiality.
The agent for Northrop'srelease testifies to
this,and ithas been generally
supper-table,about seven by two men,
admittedfact.
put into a wagon. One of them got into the
But it
wagon with isprobablyonlyone case in a hundred
me, and rode to Elkton,Md., where I
that can
at twelve o'clock, get into court "
; of the multitudes
who are drawn down in the ever-widening
maelstrom onlynow and then one ever comes
back to tellthe tale.
succeeding chapterof advertisements
The
willshow the reader how many such victims
say that I was Mr. Schoolfield' slave,or he would there may probably be.
shoot me, and pulled a 'rifle'out of his pocket
and showed it to me, and also threatened to whip
my mother and all the family were free, almost sunk to the condition of animals;
except
me. The magistrate told me to go back to Madame
that generally theyare kindlytreated."c.
C, and he told Madame C. that she must "c. "c.
not let me
go out at night; and he told Mr. C. In readingover some two hundred Southern
that he must prove how he came by me. The
magistrate afterwards called on Mrs. C, at her newspapers this fall, the author has been
house,and had a long talk with her in the
struck with the
parlor.
very graphicand circumstantial
I do not know what he said,as they were by them-
pictures, which occur in all of them,