CHAPTER VII.
_My safe return to Kentucky .-- The perils I encountered there .-- Again betrayed, and taken by a mob; ironed and imprisoned .-- Narrow escape from death .-- Life in a slave prison._ I prepared myself for the journey before named, and started back in the month of July, 1839.
My intention was, to let no person know my business until I returned back to the North.

I went to Cincinnati, and got a passage down on board of a boat just as I did the first time, without any misfortune or delay.

I called on my mother, and the raising of a dead body from the grave could not have been more surprising to any one than my arrival was to her, on that sad summer's night.

She was not able to suppress her feelings.

When I entered the room, there was but one other person in the house with my mother, and this was a little slave girl who was asleep when I entered.