her he owed her former master three thousand dollars, and he would now take the money and try and purchase herself and daughter. She told him she had his note, as she had kept it, and never given it up, still thinking she might meet him some time. He bought her, and went down to New Orleans, when he found the girl had been bought by very cruel people; and as they could never make her contented or satisfied, they now regretted their bargain. He offered one thousand dollars for her, which her master took very readily: so he sent them immediately to New York, and then went up Red river to see if he could get the other daughter; but she was perfectly satisfied with her situation, and refused to leave. 'And now, my dear Iangy,' said she, 'I arrived in Boston in time to see my dear friend before her death; I was there just three weeks before she died, and when I went into the room, she started up, and, clasping her hands, cried, Mother, God has heard my prayers! Mother and I now both belong to the same church; we are free, soul and body.' This man who bought these women was born in the South, but spent a number of years in the North.
"I will now tell you another little incident of a lady who lived in Louisville, and had a slave girl hired, who saw and knew a great deal of her chaste conduct. She feared she would tell her husband or some of his friends of her conduct; so she told her master many tales on her, and got him to sell her to a man who would take her far away from her native land. There was a hair-dresser in New Orleans who was sold five different times, for a thousand dollars each time, and, by each of her owners, promised her freedom when-
