h them into the woods. The only comfort they had was each other. However, after ten days they were separated. She was torn from him, and immediately carried away. He was then taken to be a slave.J. W. C. Pennington, a former slave, wrote a book called the Fugitive Blacksmith. Penningtons master once owned a beautiful girl. She was her mothers favorite child. After the master had owned her about one year, one of his sons became attached to her. The result was that poor Rachel had to be sold to Georgia. She was taken to the very town where her parents lived, and there sold to traitors before their weeping eyes. After this her parents heard no more of her.Slave owners didnt have sympathy on anyone. Men, women, child, sick ,or healthy, were all treated with cruelty. Tears never softened their hearts. Lydia Maria Child wrote numerous books, pamphlets, and articles for the abolitionist movement. She wrote about an occurrence in Natchez.A planter had occasion to send a female slave some distance on an errand. She did not return so soon as he expected, and he got angry. At last he gave orders that she should be severely whipped when she comes back. When the creature arrived, she pleaded for mercy, saying she had been so very ill., that she was obliged to rest in the fields; but she was ordered to receive another dozen lashes, for having had the impudence to speak. She died at the whipping post; nor did she perish alone- a new born baby died with her.Solomon Northup, a black who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, told a scene at an auction involving a slave named Eliza and her children, Emily and Randall. A buyer had shown interest in acquiring Randall. ( Rogers 5).The little fellow was made to jump, and run across the floor, and perform many other feats, exhibiting his activity and condition. All the time the trade was going on, Eliza was crying aloud, and wringing her hands. She besought the man not to buy him, unless...
