I was glad to see the old man.

He wept like a child when he told me how he had been sold from his wife and children.
The boat carried down, while I remained on board, four or five gangs of slaves.

Missouri, though a comparatively new State, is very much engaged in raising slaves to supply the southern market.

In a former chapter, I have mentioned that I was once in the employ of a slave-trader, or driver, as he is called at the south.

For fear that some may think that I have misrepresented a slave-driver, I will here give an extract from a paper published in a slaveholding State, Tennessee, called the "Millennial Trumpeter." "Droves of negroes, chained together in dozens and scores, and hand-cuffed, have been driven through our country in numbers far surpassing any previous year, and these vile slave-drivers and dealers are swarming like buzzards around a carrion.