Author: Henry Watson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-30

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781334109409

Excerpt from Narrative of Henry Watson: A Fugitive Slave I had recovered from my sickness but a few months, when one day, looking up the road, I saw a man riding towards the house I ran with the rest of the children to hide ourselves until the man had gone. When I had remained concealed some time, I ventured out again, and found Mr. Bibb, my master, looking for me, who ordered me into the house and when I got there, to my astonish ment, I found the man whom we had hid ourselves from, sit ting in the room. After he had inspected me to his satisfac tion, I was ordered out of the room, and went to play, and had forgotten the whole affair, when my master called me again, and ordered me to hold the stranger's horse. I did so, and in a few minutes he came forth and ordered me to mount behind him. This, with his assis tance, I did; but rode only a short distance, when I jumped from the horse and ran for the house as fastas I could. He succeeded, however, in overtaking me, and I was again put on the horse, this time in front of him; and in this way was I carried to Fredericksburg. I was then placed in the possession of Mr. J aner, better known as Parson J aner; the man that had bought me being the son of Mr. Jauer, who was one of those jolly, good-natured clergymen, who, while he feasted his nu merens guests in the parlor, starved his slaves in the kitchen. After remaining there awhile, it was deter mined to send me to Richmond. The same man that brought me, came for me and ordered me to take a seat on the stage-coach, and the next day I found myself in Richmond, and stopped at the Eagle Hotel, kept by Mr. Holman, where I remained two or three days, and then was carried to the auction room; entering which, I found several slaves, seated around the room waiting for the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.