As soon as she recovered herself sufficiently to speak, she advised me to take mother, and try to get out of slavery.

She said there was no hope for herself,--that she must live and die a slave.
After giving her some advice, and taking from my finger a ring and placing it upon hers, I bade her farewell forever, and returned to my mother, and then and there made up my mind to leave for Canada as soon as possible.
I had been in the city nearly two days, and as I was to be absent only a week, I thought best to get on my journey as soon as possible.

In conversing with mother, I found her unwilling to make the attempt to reach a land of liberty, but she counselled me to get my liberty if I could.

She said, as all her children were in slavery, she did not wish to leave them.

I could not bear the idea of leaving her among those pirates, when there was a prospect of being able to get away from them.
After much persuasion, I succeeded in inducing her to make the attempt to get away.
The time fixed for our departure was the next night.