To be sold to the highest bidder, and then wear the chains of slavery down to the grave.

The day star of liberty which had once cheered and gladdened my heart in freedom's land, had then hidden itself from my vision, and the dark and dismal frown of slavery had obscured the sunshine of freedom from me, as they supposed for all time to come.
But the understanding between us was, I was not to be tied, chained, nor flogged; for if they should take me into the city handcuffed and guarded by five men the question might be asked what crime I had committed?
And if it should be known that I had been a runaway to Canada, it would lessen the value of me at least one hundred dollars..