The wretched husband was therefore shackled to a young unmarried man who having no such tie to draw him back might be more safely trusted on the journey."[20] [Footnote 20: Basil Hall, _Travels in North America_ (Edinburgh, 1829), III, 128, 129.

_See also_ for similar scenes, Adam Hodgson, _Letters from North America_ (London, 1854), I, 113.] Timothy Flint wrote after observing many of these caravans: "The slaves generally seem fond of their masters, and as much delighted and interested in their migration as their masters.

It is to me a very pleasing and patriarchal sight."[21] But Edwin L.Godkin, who in his transit of a Mississippi swamp in 1856 saw a company in distress, used the episode as a peg on which to hang an anti-slavery sentiment: "I fell in with an emigrant party on their way to Texas.

Their mules had sunk in the mud, ...

the wagons were already embedded as far as the axles.