I beseech you not to let us hinder you.

If we cannot get our liberty, we do not wish to be the means of keeping you from a land of freedom." I could restrain my feelings no longer, and an outburst of my own feelings, caused her to cease speaking upon that subject.

In opposition to their wishes, I pledged myself not to leave them in the hand of the oppressor.

I took leave of them, and returned to the boat, and laid down in my bunk; but "sleep departed from my eyes, and slumber from my eyelids." A few weeks after, on our downward passage, the boat took on board, at Hannibal, a drove of slaves, bound for the New Orleans market.

They numbered from fifty to sixty, consisting of men and women from eighteen to forty years of age.