Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. JOE AND ROSA -- SOLD -- THE ESCAPE -- THEY SEACH THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS OF U. G. R. R. DANGER SIGNALS THE QUAKER FRIEND THE MASTER ON THE TRACK OUTWITTED BY THE QUAKER SAFE IN WIL BERFORCE COLONY. In the Shenandoah Valley; near the Blue Ridge, two slaves, a man and his wife, sat talking late in the evening. They were in trouble, and knew not what to do, and there was not a being on earth to whom they dared to apply for counsel. Both wept and both offered a silent prayer to Him whose ear is ever open to the cry of the poor. Finally the man aroused himself and spoke in low, earnest tones. He said, "Rosa, we must go; I can't bear to see you sold and drove like a beast, in a come to the rice swamps of Georgia, to say nothing of myself." She answered, " It can't be possible that master has sold us; we have served him so faithfully for thirty years and always obeyed him. Oh dear, Joe, what shall we do. They will catch us and whip us almost to death, and then we shall be separated never to see each other again. It may be we're not sold, and if we run off he'll sell us sure." Joe answered, "He sold us to-day; I heard him read the names of ten of us, to the trader that has been about here three or four days, and our names were first. Yes, Rosa, we must go. If they catch us it can be no worse. The whipping will not be half as hard to bear as the thought that we never tried to be free, and if we die as Sally did when they caught her and whipped her to death for killing the dog that caught her, even that is better than to be driven and sold away from each other." Fearing that they might be put in jail the next morning, they started about midnight, taking nothing with them, traveling in the road until it began to be light, when they-went...
