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Not
unfrequently
the
runaway
loses
his
life
in
the
attempt
to
escape
.
Epps
'
premises
were
bounded
on
one
side
by
Carey
's
,
a
very
extensive
sugar
plantation
.
He
cultivates
annually
at
least
fifteen
hundred
acres
of
cane
,
manufacturing
twenty-two
or
twenty-three
hundred
hogsheads
of
sugar
;
an
hogshead
and
a
half
being
the
usual
yield
of
an
acre
.
Besides
this
he
also
cultivates
five
or
six
hundred
acres
of
corn
and
cotton
.
He
owned
last
year
one
hundred
and
fifty
three
field
hands
,
besides
nearly
as
many
children
,
and
yearly
hires
a
drove
during
the
busy
season
from
this
side
the
Mississippi
.
One
of
his
negro
drivers
,
a
pleasant
,
intelligent
boy
,
was
named
Augustus
.
During
the
holidays
,
and
occasionally
while
at
work
in
adjoining
fields
,
I
had
an
opportunity
of
making
his
acquaintance
,
which
eventually
ripened
into
a
warm
and
mutual
attachment
.
Summer
before
last
he
was
so
unfortunate
as
to
incur
the
displeasure
of
the
overseer
,
a
coarse
,
heartless
brute
,
who
whipped
him
most
cruelly
.
Augustus
ran
away
.
Reaching
a
cane
rick
on
Hawkins
'
plantation
,
he
secreted
himself
in
the
top
of
it
.
All
Carey
's
dogs
were
put
upon
his
track
--
some
fifteen
of
them
--
and
soon
scented
his
footsteps
to
the
hiding
place
.
They
surrounded
the
rick
,
baying
and
scratching
,
but
could
not
reach
him
.
Presently
,
guided
by
the
clamor
of
the
hounds
,
the
pursuers
rode
up
,
when
the
overseer
,
mounting
on
to
the
rick
,
drew
him
forth
.
As
he
rolled
down
to
the
ground
the
whole
pack
plunged
upon
him
,
and
before
they
could
be
beaten
off
,
had
gnawed
and
mutilated
his
body
in
the
most
shocking
manner
,
their
teeth
having
penetrated
to
the
bone
in
an
hundred
places
.
He
was
taken
up
,
tied
upon
a
mule
,
and
carried
home
.
But
this
was
Augustus
'
last
trouble
.
He
lingered
until
the
next
day
,
when
death
sought
the
unhappy
boy
,
and
kindly
relieved
him
from
his
agony
.
It
was
not
unusual
for
slave
women
as
well
as
slave
men
to
endeavor
to
escape
.
Nelly
,
Eldret
's
girl
,
with
whom
I
lumbered
for
a
time
in
the
"
Big
Cane
Brake
,
"
lay
concealed
in
Epps
'
corn
crib
three
days
.
At
night
,
when
his
family
were
asleep
,
she
would
steal
into
the
quarters
for
food
,
and
return
to
the
crib
again
.
We
concluded
it
would
no
longer
be
safe
for
us
to
allow
her
to
remain
,
and
accordingly
she
retraced
her
steps
to
her
own
cabin
.
But
the
most
remarkable
instance
of
a
successful
evasion
of
dogs
and
hunters
was
the
following
:
Among
Carey
's
girls
was
one
by
the
name
of
Celeste
.
She
was
nineteen
or
twenty
,
and
far
whiter
than
her
owner
,
or
any
of
his
offspring
.
It
required
a
close
inspection
to
distinguish
in
her
features
the
slightest
trace
of
African
blood
.
A
stranger
would
never
have
dreamed
that
she
was
the
descendant
of
slaves
.
I
was
sitting
in
my
cabin
late
at
night
,
playing
a
low
air
on
my
violin
,
when
the
door
opened
carefully
,
and
Celeste
stood
before
me
.
She
was
pale
and
haggard
.
Had
an
apparition
arisen
from
the
earth
,
I
could
not
have
been
more
startled
.
"
Who
are
you
?
"
I
demanded
,
after
gazing
at
her
a
moment
.
"
I
'm
hungry
;
give
me
some
bacon
,
"
was
her
reply
.
My
first
impression
was
that
she
was
some
deranged
young
mistress
,
who
,
escaping
from
home
,
was
wandering
,
she
knew
not
whither
,
and
had
been
attracted
to
my
cabin
by
the
sound
of
the
violin
.
The
coarse
cotton
slave
dress
she
wore
,
however
,
soon
dispelled
such
a
supposition
.
"
What
is
your
name
?
"
I
again
interrogated
.
