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About
midnight
following
,
the
cell
door
opened
,
and
Burch
and
Radburn
entered
,
with
lanterns
in
their
hands
.
Burch
,
with
an
oath
,
ordered
us
to
roll
up
our
blankets
without
delay
,
and
get
ready
to
go
on
board
the
boat
.
He
swore
we
would
be
left
unless
we
hurried
fast
.
He
aroused
the
children
from
their
slumbers
with
a
rough
shake
,
and
said
they
were
d
--
d
sleepy
,
it
appeared
.
Going
out
into
the
yard
,
he
called
Clem
Ray
,
ordering
him
to
leave
the
loft
and
come
into
the
cell
,
and
bring
his
blanket
with
him
.
When
Clem
appeared
,
he
placed
us
side
by
side
,
and
fastened
us
together
with
hand-cuffs
--
my
left
hand
to
his
right
.
John
Williams
had
been
taken
out
a
day
or
two
before
,
his
master
having
redeemed
him
,
greatly
to
his
delight
.
Clem
and
I
were
ordered
to
march
,
Eliza
and
the
children
following
.
We
were
conducted
into
the
yard
,
from
thence
into
the
covered
passage
,
and
up
a
flight
of
steps
through
a
side
door
into
the
upper
room
,
where
I
had
heard
the
walking
to
and
fro
.
Its
furniture
was
a
stove
,
a
few
old
chairs
,
and
a
long
table
,
covered
with
papers
.
It
was
a
white-washed
room
,
without
any
carpet
on
the
floor
,
and
seemed
a
sort
of
office
.
By
one
of
the
windows
,
I
remember
,
hung
a
rusty
sword
,
which
attracted
my
attention
.
Burch
's
trunk
was
there
.
In
obedience
to
his
orders
,
I
took
hold
of
one
of
its
handles
with
my
unfettered
hand
,
while
he
taking
hold
of
the
other
,
we
proceeded
out
of
the
front
door
into
the
street
in
the
same
order
as
we
had
left
the
cell
.
It
was
a
dark
night
.
All
was
quiet
.
I
could
see
lights
,
or
the
reflection
of
them
,
over
towards
Pennsylvania
Avenue
,
but
there
was
no
one
,
not
even
a
straggler
,
to
be
seen
.
I
was
almost
resolved
to
attempt
to
break
away
.
Had
I
not
been
hand-cuffed
the
attempt
would
certainly
have
been
made
,
whatever
consequence
might
have
followed
.
Radburn
was
in
the
rear
,
carrying
a
large
stick
,
and
hurrying
up
the
children
as
fast
as
the
little
ones
could
walk
.
So
we
passed
,
hand-cuffed
and
in
silence
,
through
the
streets
of
Washington
--
through
the
Capital
of
a
nation
,
whose
theory
of
government
,
we
are
told
,
rests
on
the
foundation
of
man
's
inalienable
right
to
life
,
liberty
,
and
the
pursuit
of
happiness
!
Hail
!
Columbia
,
happy
land
,
indeed
!
Reaching
the
steamboat
,
we
were
quickly
hustled
into
the
hold
,
among
barrels
and
boxes
of
freight
.
A
colored
servant
brought
a
light
,
the
bell
rung
,
and
soon
the
vessel
started
down
the
Potomac
,
carrying
us
we
knew
not
where
.
The
bell
tolled
as
we
passed
the
tomb
of
Washington
!
Burch
,
no
doubt
,
with
uncovered
head
,
bowed
reverently
before
the
sacred
ashes
of
the
man
who
devoted
his
illustrious
life
to
the
liberty
of
his
country
.
None
of
us
slept
that
night
but
Randall
and
little
Emmy
.
For
the
first
time
Clem
Ray
was
wholly
overcome
.
To
him
the
idea
of
going
south
was
terrible
in
the
extreme
.
He
was
leaving
the
friends
and
associations
of
his
youth
--
every
thing
that
was
dear
and
precious
to
his
heart
--
in
all
probability
never
to
return
.
He
and
Eliza
mingled
their
tears
together
,
bemoaning
their
cruel
fate
.
For
my
own
part
,
difficult
as
it
was
,
I
endeavored
to
keep
up
my
spirits
.
I
resolved
in
my
mind
a
hundred
plans
of
escape
,
and
fully
determined
to
make
the
attempt
the
first
desperate
chance
that
offered
.
I
had
by
this
time
become
satisfied
,
however
,
that
my
true
policy
was
to
say
nothing
further
on
the
subject
of
my
having
been
born
a
freeman
.
It
would
but
expose
me
to
mal-treatment
,
and
diminish
the
chances
of
liberation
.
After
sunrise
in
the
morning
we
were
called
up
on
deck
to
breakfast
.
Burch
took
our
hand-cuffs
off
,
and
we
sat
down
to
table
.
He
asked
Eliza
if
she
would
take
a
dram
.
She
declined
,
thanking
him
politely
.
During
the
meal
we
were
all
silent
--
not
a
word
passed
between
us
.
A
mulatto
woman
who
served
at
table
seemed
to
take
an
interest
in
our
behalf
--
told
us
to
cheer
up
,
and
not
to
be
so
cast
down
.
Breakfast
over
,
the
hand-cuffs
were
restored
,
and
Burch
ordered
us
out
on
the
stern
deck
.
We
sat
down
together
on
some
boxes
,
still
saying
nothing
in
Burch
's
presence
.
Occasionally
a
passenger
would
walk
out
to
where
we
were
,
look
at
us
for
a
while
,
then
silently
return
.
It
was
a
very
pleasant
morning
.
The
fields
along
the
river
were
covered
with
verdure
,
far
in
advance
of
what
I
had
been
accustomed
to
see
at
that
season
of
the
year
.
The
sun
shone
out
warmly
;
the
birds
were
singing
in
the
trees
.
The
happy
birds
--
I
envied
them
.
I
wished
for
wings
like
them
,
that
I
might
cleave
the
air
to
where
my
birdlings
waited
vainly
for
their
father
's
coming
,
in
the
cooler
region
of
the
North
.
In
the
forenoon
the
steamer
reached
Aquia
Creek
.
There
the
passengers
took
stages
--
Burch
and
his
five
slaves
occupying
one
exclusively
.
He
laughed
with
the
children
,
and
at
one
stopping
place
went
so
far
as
to
purchase
them
a
piece
of
gingerbread
.
He
told
me
to
hold
up
my
head
and
look
smart
.
That
I
might
,
perhaps
,
get
a
good
master
if
I
behaved
myself
.
I
made
him
no
reply
.
His
face
was
hateful
to
me
,
and
I
could
not
bear
to
look
upon
it
.
I
sat
in
the
corner
,
cherishing
in
my
heart
the
hope
,
not
yet
extinct
,
of
some
day
meeting
the
tyrant
on
the
soil
of
my
native
State
.
At
Fredericksburgh
we
were
transferred
from
the
stage
coach
to
a
car
,
and
before
dark
arrived
in
Richmond
,
the
chief
city
of
Virginia
.
At
this
city
we
were
taken
from
the
cars
,
and
driven
through
the
street
to
a
slave
pen
,
between
the
railroad
depot
and
the
river
,
kept
by
a
Mr.
Goodin
.
This
pen
is
similar
to
Williams
'
in
Washington
,
except
it
is
somewhat
larger
;
and
besides
,
there
were
two
small
houses
standing
at
opposite
corners
within
the
yard
.
These
houses
are
usually
found
within
slave
yards
,
being
used
as
rooms
for
the
examination
of
human
chattels
by
purchasers
before
concluding
a
bargain
.
Unsoundness
in
a
slave
,
as
well
as
in
a
horse
,
detracts
materially
from
his
value
.
If
no
warranty
is
given
,
a
close
examination
is
a
matter
of
particular
importance
to
the
negro
jockey
.
