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| FIVE YEARS MfD ONE MONTH SEC&ETED. 189 If all this can be done, some little time or notice must be bad to get them all ready. They tell me they can pay the sums marked to their names. The aggregate \& small, but as i told you, they are poor. Let me hear from you when convenient. Truly Yours, WM. PENN. 1. A -woman, may be 40 years old, .......................................................... $40.00 2. " " 40 " with 3 children, say 4, 6, and 8,*.................. 15.00 3. A sister of the above, younger ............................................................... 10.00 4. A very genteel mulatto girl about 22 ...................................................... 25.00 5. A woman, say 45, These are all one G. A daughter, 18, family, either of 7. A son, 16, them leaving 8. A son, 14, • alone, they think, • .................................... 50.00 9. A daughter, 12, would cause the 10. A son, say 22, balance to be sold. 11. A man, the Uncle, 40, 12. A very genteel mulatto girl, say 23 ......................................................... 25.00 13. " " " " 24 ......................................................... 25.00 FIVE YEARS AND ONE MONTH SECRETED. JOHN HENRY, HEZEKIAH, AND JAMES HILL.—JOHN MAKES A DESPERATE RESISTANCE AT THE SLAVE AUCTION AND ESCAPES AFTEE BEING SECRETED NINE MONTHS. HEZEKIAH ESCAPED FROM A TRADER AND WAS SECRETED THIRTEEN MONTHS BEFORE HIS FIXAIj DELIVERANCE.—JAMES WAS SECRETED THREE YEAES IN A PLACE OF GREAT SUFFERING, AXD ESCAPED. IN ALL FIVE YEARS AND ONH MONTH. Many letters from JOHN HENRY show how incessantly his mind ran out towards the oppressed, and the remarkable intelligence and ability he displayed with the pen, considering that he had no chance to acquire book knowledge. After having fled for refuge to Canada and having become a partaker of impartial freedom under the government of Great Britain, to many it seemed that the fugitive should be perfectly satisfied. Many appeared to think that the fugitive, having secured freedom, had but little occasion for anxiety or care, even for his nearest kin. " Change your name." " Never tell any one how you escaped." " Never let any one know where you came from/' " Never think of writing back, not even to your wife; you can do your kin no good, but may do them harm by writing." " Take care of yourself." " You are free, well, be satisfied then." " It will do you no good to fret about your wife and children; that will not get them out of Slavery/' Such was the advice often given to the fugitive. Men who had been slaves themselves, and some who had aided in the escape of individuals, sometimes urged these sentiments on men and women whose hearts were almost breaking over the thought that their dearest and best friends were in chains in the prison-house. Perhaps it was thoughtlessness • The children might be left behind. |