slaves of one of the principal physicians of the place, and who
had escaped and were supposed to be in New York. The letter
requested me to find them and give them warning. As there was no
time to be lost, I concluded to go over to New York,
notwithstanding the doubtfulness of attempting to find them in
so large a city. I wrote notices to be read in the colored
churches and colored Sabbath-schools, which I delivered in
person. I then went to the colored school, superintended by Rev.
C.B. Bay. I stated my errand to him, with a description of the
young men. "Why," said he, "I must have one of them in my
school." He took me to a class where I found one of the young
men, to whom I gave the needful information.

He told me that his father was Dr. ---- of Savannah, and that he
had five children by the young man's mother, who was his slave.
On his marriage to a white woman, he sent his five colored
children and their mother to auction, to be sold for cash to the
highest bidder. On being put upon the auction-block, this young
man addressed the bystanders, and told them the circumstances of
the case; that his mother had long lived in the family of the
doctor, that it was cruel to sell her and her children, and he
warned the people not to bid for him, for he would no longer be
a slave to any man, and if any one bought him, he would lose his
money. He added, "I thought it right to say this." I then spoke
to the crowd. "My father," said I, "has long been one of your
first doctors, and do you think it right for him to sell my
mother and his children in this way?"

"I was sold, and my brother also, and the rest, although my
brother said to the crowd what I had said. We soon made our
escape, and are now both in the city. I am a blacksmith, and
have worked six months in one shop, in New York, with white
journeymen, not one of whom believes, I suppose, that I am a
colored man."

It was not surprising, for so fair was his complexion, that with
the aid of a brown wig, after he had cut off his hair, he was
completely disguised. He soon notified his brother, who lived in
another part of the city, and both put themselves out of harm's
way. They were remarkably fine young men, and it seemed a
special Providence that I should find them in such a large city,
and direct them to escape from th