I told her that I was not a housekeeper.

'Not married ?' she asked.--'No.'-- 'Well, then, get married and buy me and my husband.' "There was a girl among them whiter than I, who roused my sympathies very much.

I could not speak to her, for the past and the future were too plainly told in her face.

I spoke to another, a bright-looking girl of twelve.

'Where were you raised ?'--'In Kentucky.'-- 'And why are you to be sold ?'--'The trader came to Kentucky, bought me, and brought me here.' I thought what right had I to be homesick, when that poor girl had left all her kindred for life without her consent.
"I could hold my tongue and look around without much outward show of disgust, but to talk pleasantly to the trader I could not consent.