CHAPTER V.✦

Arrival at Norfolk--Frederick and Maria--Arthur, the Freeman--Appointed Steward--Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny--The Storm--Bahama Banks--The Calm--The Conspiracy--The Long Boat--The Small-Pox--Death of Robert--Manning, the Sailor--The Meeting in the Forecastle--The Letter--Arrival at New-Orleans--Arthur's Rescue--Theophilus Freeman, the Consignee--Platt--First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen, 65

CHAPTER VI.✦

Freeman's Industry--Cleanliness and Clothes--Exercising in the Show Room--The Dance--Bob, the Fiddler--Arrival of Customers--Slaves Examined--The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans--Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe--Parting of Randall and Eliza--Small-Pox--The Hospital--Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen--The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt--Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily, 78

CHAPTER VII.✦

The Steamboat Rodolph--Departure from New-Orleans--William Ford--Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River--Resolutions--The Great Pine Woods--Wild Cattle--Martin's Summer Residence--The Texas Road--Arrival at Master Ford's--Rose--Mistress Ford--Sally and her Children--John, the Cook--Walter, Sam, and Antony--The Mills on Indian Creek--Sabbath Days--Sam's Conversion--The Profit of Kindness--Rafting--Adam Taydem, the Little White Man--Cascalla and his Tribe--The Indian Ball--John M. Tibeats--The Storm approaching, 89

CHAPTER VIII.✦

Ford's Embarrassments--The Sale to Tibeats--The Chattel Mortgage--Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf--Description of the Latter--Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner--Meeting with Eliza--She still Mourns for her Children--Ford's Overseer, Chapin--Tibeats' Abuse--The Keg of Nails--The First Fight with Tibeats--His Discomfiture and Castigation--The attempt to Hang me--Chapin's Interference and Speech--Unhappy Reflections--Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey--Lawson and the Brown Mule--Message to the Pine Woods, 105