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A UXT HANNAH MOORE. 549
them afterwards. One boy on the place always said that he was free but had been kidnapped from Arkansas. He could tell all about how he was kidnapped, but could not find anybody to do anything for him, so he had to content himselfl
" McCaully bought me from a man by the name of Landers. While in Ladders' hands I had the rheumatism and was not able to work. He was afraid I was going to die, or he would lose me, and I would not be of any service to him, HO lie took and traded me off for a wagon. J was something better when he traded me off; well enough to be about. My health remained had for about four years, aud I never got ray health until Moore bought me. Moore took me for a debt. McCaully owed Moore for wagons. I was not born in Missouri but was born in Virginia. From my earliest memory I was owned by Courad Uaoklrr; he lived in Grason County. He was a very poor man, and had no other slave but me. He bought me before I was quite four years old, for one hundred dollars. Haokler bought me from a man named William Scott. I must go back by good rights to the beginning and tell all: Scott bought me first from a young man he met one day in the road, with a bundle in his arms. Scott, wishing to know of the young man what lie had in his bundle, was told that he had a baby. ' What are you going to do with it?' said Scott. The young man said that he was going to take it to his sister; that its mother was dead, and it had nobody to take care of it. Scott offered the young man a horse for it, and the young man took him up. This is the way I was told that Scott came by me. I never knowefl anything about my mother or father, but I have always believed that my mother was a white woman, and that J was put away to save her character; I have always thought this. Under Hackler I was treated more like a brute than a human bring,. I was fud like the |