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hands — His drunkenness — Good fortune in falling to Miss Lucretia — She allows my return to Baltimore — Joy at Master Hugh's — Death of Miss Lucretia — Master Thomas Auld's second marriage — The new wife unlike the old — Again removed from Master Hugh's — Reasons for regret — Plan of escape 107

CHAPTER XIV.

EXPERIENCE IN ST. MICHAELS.

St. Michaels and its inhabitants — Capt. Auld — His new wife — Suffer- ings from hunger — Forced to steal — Argument in vindication thereof — Southern camp-meeting — What Capt. Auld did there — Hopes — Sus- picions — The result — Faith and works at variance — Position in the church — Poor Cousin Henny — Methodist preachers — Their disregard of the slaves — One exception — Sabbath-school — How and by whom broken up — Sad change in my prospects — Covey, the negro-breaker. . .116

CHAPTER XV. COVEY, THE NEGRO BREAKER

Journey to Covey's — Meditations by the way — Covey's house — Family — Awkwardness as a field hand — A cruel beating — Why given — Description of Covey — First attempt at driving oxen — Hair-breadth escape — Ox and man alike property — Hard labor more effective than the whip for breaking down the spirit — Cunning and trickery of Covey — Family worship — Shocking and indecent contempt for chas- tity — Great mental agitation — Anguish beyond description 129

CHAPTER XVI. ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANT'S VICE.

Experience at Covey's summed up — First six months severer than the remaining six — Preliminaries to the change — Reasons for narrating the circumstances — Scene in the treading-yard — Author taken ill — Escapes to St. Michaels — The pursuit — Suffering in the woods — Talk with Master Thomas — His beating — Driven back to Covey's— The slaves never sick — Natural to expect them to feign sickness — Laziness of slaveholders 142

CHAPTER XVII. THE LAST FLOGGING.

A sleepless night — Return to Covey's — Punished by him — The chase defeated — Vengeance postponed — Musings in the woods — The alterna- tive^ — Deplorable spectacle — Night in the woods — Expected attach — Acsastsd by Sandy — A friend, not a master — Sandy's hospitality —