to him a day longer
than she could find an Underground Rail Road conductor who would take
her North.

The blow that she had thus received made her almost frantic; she had
however thought seriously on the question of her rights before this
outrage.

In Waverton's household Eliza had become a fixture as it were,
especially with regard to his children; she had won their affections
completely, and she was under the impression that in some instances
their influence had saved her from severe punishment; and for them she
manifested kindly feelings. In speaking of her mistress she said that
she was "only tolerable."

It would be useless to attempt a description of the great satisfaction
and delight evinced by Eliza on reaching the Committee in Philadelphia.

Nancy Grantham also fled from near Richmond, and was fortunate in that
she escaped from the prison-house at the age of nineteen. She possessed
a countenance peculiarly mild, and was good-looking and interesting, and
although evidently a slave her father belonged strictly to the white
man's party, for she was fully half white. She was moved to escape
simply to shun her master's evil designs; his brutal purposes were only
frustrated by the utmost resolution. This chivalric gentleman was a
husband, the father of nine children, and the owner of three hundred
slaves. He belonged to a family bearing the name of Christian, and was
said to be an M.D. "He was an old man, but very cruel to all his
slaves." It was said that Nancy's sister was the object of his lust, but
she resisted, and the result was that she was sold to New Orleans. The
auction-block was not the only punishment she was called upon to endure
for her fidelity to her womanhood, for resistance to her master, but
before being sold she was cruelly scourged.

Nancy's sorrows first commenced in Alabama. Five years previous to her
escape she was brought from a cotton plantation in Alabama, where she
had been accustomed to toil in the cotton-field. In comparing and
contrasting the usages of slave-holders in the two States in which she
had served, she said she had "seen more flogging under old Christian"
than she had been accustomed to see in Alabama; yet she concluded, that
she could hardly tell which State was the worst; her cup had been full
and very bitter in both States.

Nancy said, "the very day before I escaped, I was required to go to his
(her master's) bed-chamber to keep the flies off of him as he lay sick,