The word was given.

Bruce fell with the rest, and imitated to admiration the agonies of a dying man; and Quamina, at the risk of his life, succeeded in saving that of the white man.

That night, he contrived to get him outside the lines, conducted him on the road leading to St.George, and left him.

Mr.Bruce, after much fatigue and several hair-breadth escapes, reached the town, being the only one among the prisoners carried to the camp who escaped from the clutches of the monster.
I may as well state here, that after the insurrection was quelled, Mr.
Bruce manifested towards his preserver a grateful spirit.

He wished to give him his freedom, but Quamina, who was a negro of consequence on the estate, refused to accept it.