He had three servants besides myself--one man and two women.
Mrs.Price was very proud of her servants, always keeping them well dressed, and as soon as I had been purchased, she resolved to have a new carriage.

And soon one was procured, and all preparations were made for a turn-out in grand style, I being the driver.
One of the female servants was a girl some eighteen or twenty years of age, named Maria.

Mrs.Price was very soon determined to have us united, if she could so arrange matters.

She would often urge upon me the necessity of having a wife, saying that it would be so pleasant for me to take one in the same family! But getting married, while in slavery, was the last of my thoughts; and had I been ever so inclined, I should not have married Maria, as my love had already gone in another quarter.
Mrs.Price soon found out that her efforts at this match-making between Maria and myself would not prove successful.

She also discovered (or thought she had) that I was rather partial to a girl named Eliza, who was owned by Dr.Mills.This induced her at once to endeavor the purchase of Eliza, so great was her desire to get me a wife! Before making the attempt, however, she deemed it best to talk to me a little upon the subject of love, courtship, and marriage.