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248 stream, and nothing could be done for her, although there were several on board who knew she had been taken from Kentucky to secure her freedom. They put her off below Baton Rouge."

When I had concluded, the lady exclaimed, "Oh, heavens, I would rather go back to New York and work there, than be here among the fashionables." I told her if she belonged to the fashionables of New York, it was all the same, as a great many of the splendid mansions on Fifth Avenue, and other fashionable parts of the city were built with the price of blood; for a great many southerners when they accumulated a little money, were in the habit of coming north every summer, and often secured homesteads in New York. "I will not stay here long, but before I leave, will come to see you and get you to tell me some things you saw and know of the South." I said to her, if you come to my house, I will tell you many things, and give you occular demonstration too, of the truth of what I have been telling you, for I will show you an old woman there, and she will tell you how she was treated while down South.

The next Sunday evening while part of the members of my family were gone to church, and I was sitting alone, Miss came in, almost out of breath, as she had great difficulty in finding the house. The last time she had been there she rode, and as this was Sunday evening, the stores were all closed, and she found it rather strange, but making inquiries, and finding the street, she soon found the house.

On coming in she told me she had but little time to stay, and she wanted to have a good interview with me; she said she had told the family she was stopping