he end of this time, the Adinyes found us. We ran away. They called my
uncle to go to them; but he refused, and they shot him immediately: they
killed him. The rest of us ran on, and they did not get at us till the
next day. I ran up into a tree: they followed me and brought me down. They
tied my feet. I do not know if they found my father and mother, and
brothers and sisters: they had run faster than me, and were half a mile
farther when I got up into the tree: I have never seen them since.--There
was a man who ran up into the tree with me: I believe they shot him, for I
never saw him again.
They carried away about twenty besides me. They carried us to the sea.
They did not beat us: they only killed one man, who was very ill and too
weak to carry his load: they made all of us carry chickens and meat for
our food; but this poor man could not carry his load, and they ran him
through the body with a sword.--He was a neighbour of ours. When we got to
the sea they sold all of us, but not to the same person. They sold us for
money; and I was sold six times over, sometimes for money, sometimes for
cloth, and sometimes for a gun. I was about thirteen years old. It was
about half a year from the time I was taken, before I saw the white
people.
We were taken in a boat from place to place, and sold at every place we
stopped at. In about six months we got to a ship, in which we first saw
white people: they were French. They bought us. We found here a great many
other slaves; there were about eighty, including women and children. The
Frenchmen sent away all but five of us into another very large ship. We
five staid on board till we got to England, which was about five or six
months. The slaves we saw on board the ship were chained together by the
legs below deck, so close they could not move. They were flogged very
cruelly: I saw one of them flogged till he died; we could not tell what
for. They gave them enough to eat. The place they were confined in below
deck was so hot and nasty I could not bear to be in it. A great many of
the slaves were ill, but they were not attended to. They used to flog me
very bad on board the ship: the captain cut my head very bad one time.
"I am very happy to be in England, as far as I am very well;--but I have
no friend belonging to me, but God, who will take care of me as he has
done already. I am very glad I have come to England, to know who God is. I
should like much to see my friends again, bu
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